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... Tim O’Brien certainly could not, as his novel, Going After Cacciato, shows first hand what it means to kill an innocent person: an inability to live with the committed action and an overall mental malfunction. ... By having the innocent Cacciato killed by the good intentioned Paul Berlin, O’Brien yields empathy in the reader. ... From the beginning of the story, Cacciato is the pinnacle of innocents, everything from his parallels to a child to his refusal to sacrifice his morals for the “good” of the group. ... Cacciato refuses to follow the rest of the group just because they claim that it is “for your own good” to kill Lieutenant Martin. When Paul Berlin “pries Cacciato’s left hand from the line” and “presses it firmly into the boy’s hand…Cacciato’s eyes never leave the bobber in Lake Country” (p.
Approximate Word count = 684
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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