Dynamic Character

- A character who changes in some important way as a resolt of the story's action.
In the begining of the book Tim O'bien is a young and niaieve. He has little sense of what loss and suffering is. This is especially clear in the chapter, On The Rainy River, because he discribes how simple his plan for life had been up to the point of recieving the draft notice. He has trouble making this huge decsion because he is scared of what might happen. Tim changes drasticly through out the war though. This is especially clear in the chapters Feild Trip and The Ghost Soldiers. In these chapters we see how the war has made O'brien hard and mean. He Seeks revenge on Bobby Jergans for not helping him with his shot womb properly. In the chapter Feild Trip O'brien goes back to Vietnam to the feild where his friend died. He is still effected by his loss years later and he comes back to find some closer. The choices we make early in life effect the entirety of our lives.