20. The Things They Carried: Night Life~Change

This chapter demonstrates that every soldier goes through some sort of life changing alteration. The war changed the soldiers and it usually wasn't for the best. The crazy sickness that Rat experienced symbolizes the change that occurs with just about every soldier. War plays with their emotions. It gives them a sort of sickness that is unexplainable. These sicknesses received by the soldiers connect with the unexplainable circumstances of war. Many things just happen. There is no explanation. One simply just has to take it as it is.