Up to this point from the book The Things They Carried, there are several different themes from some of the chapters. One of the theme is One of the things that the soldiers are most afraid of more than death is being embarassed, from the chapter of The Dentist. In this chapter, soldiers were waiting to get their teeth to be checked. At this point, Curt Lemon began to tense up, saying he had bad experience with dentists in high school. When the dentist called him, he went in, but before the dentist touched him, he fainted. ¨Anyone else would´ve laughed it off, but for Curt Lemon it was too much. The embarrassment must´ve turned a screw in his head¨ (84). Because the soldiers laughed at Lemon, he was embarrassed and could not tolerated, until