Part One: I will carry a lot of things away form this book. The biggest thing would have to be sympathy for my cousin Scott, who suffers a great deal from PTSD (earned Purple Heart in Afghanistan). The character that means the most to me would have to be Mary Ann, she was the most extreme out of all of them, but it pretty nutshells what war is capable of doing to a person. I think the best thing people could carry from this novel would be patience with veterans. I learned this from when Scott came home: he was so traumatized and the person that I grew up with was completely gone. The only thing we could do was help him and take everything day by day.
Part Two:
I would have to say the fictional character that means the most to me would have to be Eddie from "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. Eddie is man whose story begins at the ending of his life because "all endings are also beginnings- we just don't know it at the time." This character gave me a lot of peace when my life was filled with chaos. His story taught me that you can always find the good out of anything.
(Eddie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven)
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