Compare And Contrast Where Have You Gone Billy And The Sniper

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Many movies and other stories features soldiers.through the reading of “The sniper” by Liam Flanery and “where have you gone billy”; the reader could generalize of how war was during the Vietnam War. but the overall theme are similar meaning war could be dangerous. when people decide to put on the uniform there putting on more for what they can handle. joining the army could be very risky and challenging.

The two short stories has differences just as much as they have similarities,what the reader what the reader could develop when reading the two short stories is that they both took place during war and at a specific time of war also that lots of loved ones had passed away some differences might be is, in the short story “ where have you

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