Et Tu Brute?

" ' I hate to say this, man, but you're out of touch. Jorgenson - he's with us now.' (pg 197)"

Back in my freshman year, I had Mrs. Miles for my English teacher. She, to this day, is one of the best teachers I've ever had, and I will never forget half the things she taught me that year. Over the course of the second semester, I believe, we read Julius Caesar. My memory on the classic is a little sketchy, but I do remember that, initially, the people of Rome love Caesar. They see him as a god, but toward the end, the love shifts to a few different people, including Mark Antony. The people are fickle. It is a human flaw that can't be traced to a gene or any kind of DNA. Anyways, the story of Caesar immediately popped into my head when reading this part because the men of the platoon are fickle in regard to who is "in" and who is "out". This is understandable considering they have to trust the men they are with with their lives, but still. O'Brien really had not been on the other side of the fence for very long before they considered him an outsider and I found it an interesting look into the human nature that becomes so visible in wartime situations.