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Brunner is the Alpha Company squad corporal, Sergeant Simpson’s second in command. Brunner expresses some racist sentiment toward the Black soldiers in the squad—Perry, Peewee, and Johnson—and homophobic sentiment towards Lobel. But he follows Simpson willingly while the Black sergeant leads the group. And, while he never enjoys close friendships with any of his squad mates, he does earn their respect when he shows himself to be loyal to them. Brunner frequently tries to ingratiate himself to the officers, including Captain Stewart and Sergeant Dongan.
Brunner Quotes in Fallen Angels
The Fallen Angels quotes below are all either spoken by Brunner or refer to Brunner. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Peewee and I had breakfast together. I asked him if he liked the army […]
“You got all this chickenshit to go through,” he said. “And I don’t like that. But this is the first place I ever been in my life where I got what everybody else got.”
“What does that mean?”
“Back home when everybody got new sneakers, I didn’t get none,” Peewee said. “Either Moms didn’t have the money, or she had the money, and we had to get some other stupid thing, like food. When everybody got a bike, I didn’t get one ’cause there was no way we could get the money for a bike. But anything anybody got in the army, I got. You got a gun, I got a gun. You got boots, I got boots. You eat this lousy-ass chip beef on toast, guess what I eat?”
“Lousy-ass chip beef on toast,” I said.
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Brunner Quotes in Fallen Angels
The Fallen Angels quotes below are all either spoken by Brunner or refer to Brunner. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
Peewee and I had breakfast together. I asked him if he liked the army […]
“You got all this chickenshit to go through,” he said. “And I don’t like that. But this is the first place I ever been in my life where I got what everybody else got.”
“What does that mean?”
“Back home when everybody got new sneakers, I didn’t get none,” Peewee said. “Either Moms didn’t have the money, or she had the money, and we had to get some other stupid thing, like food. When everybody got a bike, I didn’t get one ’cause there was no way we could get the money for a bike. But anything anybody got in the army, I got. You got a gun, I got a gun. You got boots, I got boots. You eat this lousy-ass chip beef on toast, guess what I eat?”
“Lousy-ass chip beef on toast,” I said.
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