Chapter 20- Night Life

I really like Rat Kiley. I feel like he is one of the more harder workers. Not only does he have to worry about getting killed, but he has to worry about everyone else not getting killed. This stress and worry finally got to him in this chapter. Rat is "seeing dead people". Except he is seeing their insides. I would be freaking out, too, if I was Rat. After becoming friends with all his fellow soldiers, I could see why it is so hard for him to work on them. He has seen three of his friends die. Rat was having dreams about bodies and he would see them when he was awake, too. He's going insane. Who can blame him? If you can't stand to see the pictures that are constantly flashing through your head, what do you do? All of his fellow soldiers couldn't blame him either. Rat had helped them all out at one point or another and he deserved a break. "He took off his boots and socks, laid out his medical kit, doped himself up, and put a round through his foot." Something inside of him snapped and the war quickly became too much for him. I'm sure that the other soldiers envied him. They had seen the same things he had. They were all probably going a little insane, too.