{"id":5273,"date":"2019-12-08T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:25:15","slug":"the-things-they-carried-night-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-things-they-carried-night-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things They Carried\u2014&#8221;Night Life&#8221;: Why the Medic Goes Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What happens in the chapter in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em> called &#8220;Night Life&#8221;? How does &#8220;Night Life&#8221; demonstrate the ways war can make a soldier go crazy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at the basic elements of this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221;<em> <\/em>and discuss how seeing your fellows die, one after the other, can lead to paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Things They Carried<\/em>: &#8220;Night Life&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; O\u2019Brien recalls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/rat-kiley-the-things-they-carried\/\">Rat Kiley<\/a> almost hugging him as he was being helped into the chopper. After a short hospital stay, O\u2019Brien returned to the company in the field.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien returned to the company. When he returned, however, he discovered that Kiley was no longer with the unit, having suffered his own gunshot wound and transferred to a hospital in Japan. What really happened, however, was much more disturbing. <strong>Kiley had, in fact, suffered a mental breakdown, believing that the insects in the jungle were personally out to get him<\/strong>. He had begun compulsively scratching himself, eventually covering himself in scabs and open sores. The strain of his job as a medic, having to constantly attend to the dead and dying, had finally pushed him past his limits. <strong>In desperation, Kiley shot himself in the foot to get out of active combat duty<\/strong>, although Cross told Kiley that he would present it as an accident to the military authorities. Kiley&#8217;s descent into madness is the main topic of this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In earlier chapters, before this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; Rat Kiley had shown his sensitivity to death. The soldiers note that the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ted-lavender-the-things-they-carried\/\">Ted Lavender<\/a> was un-dramatic and oddly mundane\u2014in their words, \u201cthe poor bastard just flat-fuck fell. Boom. Down. Nothing else.\u201d Of the 17 men\u2014now 16\u2014only Rat Kiley shows any shock as he repeatedly remarks, as if in shock, \u201cThe guy\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiley could also be cruel. Before this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; Rat Kiley tortured a baby water buffalo with a submachine gun, methodically blowing away its limbs and body with surgical precision (he was a medic, after all) while the company watched the animal bleed to death, fascinated by how long it took to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Madness was baked into the Vietnam experience<\/strong>. Rat Kiley was a keeper of these tales (and also a known braggart and exaggerator).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Brien reflects on two separate occasions in which he was hit by gunfire in Vietnam. The first time was when Rat Kiley was still with the company. As a skilled medic, Kiley had been able to successfully apply a compress, stop the bleeding, and get O\u2019Brien to an emergency evacuation helicopter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The New Medic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In another chapter before this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; Rat Kiley was replaced by a new medic named Bobby Jorgenson, who was young, inexperienced, and badly unprepared for when O\u2019Brien was shot on a second occasion, this time in the buttocks. Jorgenson failed to treat for shock and did a shoddy job stitching the wound. As a result, O\u2019Brien became infected and nearly succumbed to gangrene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his new assignment, O\u2019Brien had time to reflect on his experience of getting shot and came to hate Bobby Jorgenson for the incompetence which nearly led to his death. <strong>He brooded over this and yearned to exact revenge on Jorgenson<\/strong>. While Alpha Company was at the base, Jorgenson and O\u2019Brien accidentally ran into one another. Jorgenson was embarrassed and tried to apologize to O\u2019Brien, explaining that he had been paralyzed by fear when he saw that his fellow soldier had been shot and that it was up to <em>him <\/em>to save his life. Jorgenson told O\u2019Brien that he had been suffering from recurring nightmares and trauma thinking about what happened to O\u2019Brien. But O\u2019Brien was unable to move on\u2014<strong>his experience in the war and the things he\u2019d seen had turned him into a crueler, meaner version of his former self. He was now capable of evil.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of this chapter from <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Night Life,&#8221; is that war changes us, sometimes irreversibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens in the chapter in The Things They Carried called &#8220;Night Life&#8221;? 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