Throughout this chapter we see examples of how the love of the soldiers stays consistent their whole lives. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross still loves Martha years and years after the war has ended. He had burnt her picture after Lavender had died out of guilt but when he returned she gave him a new one. Martha was Jimmy's escape during the war. When it got tough, he would stare at her picture or the good luck stone that she gave him. He would contemplate her feelings for him and wonder what could of been if he had acted differently toward her. When he returns from the war he meets up with her at a high school reunion and she still does not love him. He confesses that he will never move on. I think that the war did this to him. Years of loneliness with nothing else but your thoughts and some souvenirs from home force you to focus on the only happy thing you once had or wish to have when you get back home.
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