Kiowa is similar to me in many surprising ways. We are both honest, introspective and extremely diligent. Kiowa is a special character. He is my favorite character from the book "The Things They Carried" diligent and honest, with drawn and quite caring to others. He is very smart and practical. A couple examples of his smart and practical are he carried extra shoes "Moccasins" in order to sneak up on enemies and walk more quietly. He also helped his other soldiers think more clearly about their actions. Specifically when O'Brien kills of a child soldier in the Vietnamese army. He is also a Baptist, Christian and a Native American, therefore he brings a unique perspective that is quite different from the soldiers who fight alongside with him to the tragic events that the Alpha Company is forced to endure. Kiowa is a complicated character in this book. …show more content…
He dies in a unsightly, disgusting and brutal way. He drowns under the muck of a sewage field. Ironically this is almost exactly where his lieutenant, "Jimmy Cross", has a bad feeling that something will go wrong. Kiowa’s mangled body is that has been entirely submerged symbolizes the inconsistency of the way life plays out. It also represents the horrifying and repulsive suddenness in which it can be taken away. There is no dignity whatsoever to Kiowa’s death. That is not an honorable way to die even though the cause is quite honorable. Kiowa ends up becoming yet another casualty of a war that steals the identify of men and women until they end up just being another number on the board of deaths that have occurred in the