How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Cam kicked at the ground with the toe of his boot. "I've done nothing. Nothing. Since I did come home."
"You fought; you've done enough."
"Enough for who? For what? To rot the rest of my days?" (1.45-47)
Right away we get the sense that Cam's duty to fight in the war has overtaken his life—no one wants him to lift a finger once he's home, and it's driving him crazy. He wants to get back to normal, but most people feel it's their duty to take care of him now.
Quote #2
"We say he died brave and fighting," said Bailey.
It made no sense to Cam. "For why?" If they died of fever, why was there shame in that? (7.83)
It seems like there is shame in dying in war of anything other than a battle wound—at least to the soldiers—which Cam doesn't really understand. Do you think it matters what a soldier dies of? Is it more heroic to be killed in combat, or to die of a fever? What about just risking your life to go to war in the first place?