Why does the author use ted lavender as a recurring motif in "the things they carried"?

What does the machinery in the hospital represent to the army major in the story? support your answer with textual evidence.

Which excerpt from “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes” supports suzuki’s argument that she is “losing [her] future”? coming here today, i have no hidden agenda. losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. and now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day – vanishing forever. i'm only a child, yet i know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

The point of view in the novel can best be described as third-person omniscient third-person limited second-person first-person