In the story the Purple Heart, Matt the main character of the story has been in the hospital trying to remember everything that has happened to him. He was called into an office on the other end of the building. He tried to walk but he only go so far before he started to get tired. A young boy pushed him across the building to the office of a high up military officer. As he sat there in the office still trying to remember what happened, he started to get a little worried that something bad had happened. The high up officer came into the office and asked him how he was feeling. Matt sat there with the panicked look on his face not know what to say to the officer. He sat there trying to remember what happened that day and the more he thought about it, the more he could remember small pieces of that day. When the office was finished asking him questions Matt returned back to his bed where he laid there trying to learn more about that day. As he ran the story through his head before he went to sleep he remembers a little bit more. Matt would hear stuff during the day where he would think the war was being fought right outside of the building. The nurse would tell him what he was hearing and tell him he need more rest before he could start walking around the hospital building. Matt would lay there thinking and then he remembered the young boy in the street.
