Jimmy Cross- He is a very nice and sensitive guy, The Lieutenant. He is in love with Martha, a girl in New Jersey who is not in love with him; he is obsessed with her knee. He thinks about Martha so much that a man is killed while he was thinking about Martha.

Rat Kiley - Rat is a medic of the group. He is nineteen years old. Rat is very careful, brave and nice. But as the story goes on he begins to start going a little crazy and shoots himself in his toe because he thinks that his medicine is killing him.

Tim- Tim is the narrator. He wrote the book. He is very helpful and thoughtful. He fought in the war at Vietnam and is still guilty for all of the people that died and things they killed so he is telling about them. He...