2) His name is Jimmy Cross, he is 23 years old and he is very down to earth, curious and a very emotional type of guy. he is constantly feeling either guilty or sad, whether it's about Lavender's death or Martha and his future with her, he's always whining about something. He has a very repressed personality as he doesn't like sharing his internal struggle with those around them. Jimmy's function in the book literally is being the young and inexperienced platoon leader of mainly young and inexperienced kids, but his rhetorical purpose is to highlight the effects and consequences of giving a young and inexperienced leader the reigns in an extremely psychologically harsh environment.

"He felt shame. he hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war". (O'brien 17)

This quote perfectly highlights my point of how O'brien uses Cross as a symbol of young and dumb ignorance in a war time setting. Cross, the leader of the platoon who is always ment to be the strongest is on the verge of a breakdown over a girl and a dead soldier. The psychological burden an immature kid like him has to carry is just too much and shows how wrong it was at that time.