"Emergency" succeeded in developing character through the use of dialogue. This story created its characters with snippets of dialogue, followed by quick descriptions that put such a clear image in my head of that portrayed character, especially Georgie. From the line, "there's so much goop inside of us, man", to when he pulls the knife out of the Terrence Weber's eye without even noticing, the reader gets a good depiction of who Georgie is. By the end of the book, the reader understands that Georgie is not a try-hard, but a very caring, brave, and all around good person.
"The things we carried" was very clever in the way it was written, but also very depressing. I am currently reading "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, so i'm about to overload on depressing war literature, but I saw many similarities between these writers. They both use lots of descriptive run on sentences, although O'Brien's were much easier to read, given that I was not reaching for the thesaurus at least three times a page. I perceived "the things we carried" like a stream of consciousness, and besides Jimmy Cross, the characters were not exactly described individually in great detail, but more so as one pack of people. Unlike "Emergency", where there were less characters, but more focus on development.
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