The most vivid passage for me would have to be the fight scene. I felt like I was an innocent bystander watching the whole thing from start to finish. I thought that the narrator killed the bad character at first until he came to and started cursing again. The central character in the whole thing would have to be the narrator. He described who he hung out with and what kind of people they were. I felt that the narrator wanted to be a rebel or a 'bad guy' as he described his friends to be, because he mainly talked about the things Jeff and Digby did and it seemed like he followed along. To me, he didn't seem like a bad guy; he seemed more like a guy trying to be bad. The narrator ended up getting a second chance even though he received a chipped tooth in the process. I feel like he could have gotten into a whole lot of trouble if he was caught and luckily for him and his friends, they were able to go home.
My favorite object in 'The Things They Carried' would have to be Martha's photos because it was the only object in the story that was not violent. I don't like the idea of people fighting in wars. I know that the army/navy/etc. is designed to protect our country, but when the lives of our loved ones are fighting for a ridiculous cause, I feel that there should be other methods implemented to protect them from fighting senseless battles. I can sort of relate to Martha's photos because when my brother was in Iraq, I use to send him photos of me all the time and we wrote letters to each other as much as we could. Although he's not in Iraq any more, I have not seen him (physically) in four years because now, he lives in Ohio. This object definitely struck a cord with me more than all the others.
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