Examine how Ted Lavenders death is presented and recounted in the story. what does this manner of treatment suggest about the value human life our, counnection to one another and the deadining of war.

Death is so commonplace that the soldiers have become numb to the death that happens all around them. Kiowa describes seeing Ted Lavender die and says it was like watching a rock drop to the ground. There is no valour or heroism in Lavender's death. He simply drops like a rock and is dead: alive and alert and then dead. The men just smoke Lavender's dope after he is dead.