It is most fair to say Chip suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) since he meets the requirements such as: difficulty with self-image, highly manipulative, and immature. Nicholas Kuvaas elaborates on the characteristics of BPD by saying these characteristics have been around and persistent for years and people with BPD will have a love-hate relationship with people around them. This is such the case with Chip.
Chip is in his middle adulthood, yet he acts as if he’s still a child. He frequents a place known as Medieval Times, a two-for-one entertainment and dinner type of place, and furthermore drags his “buddy” Steven to an event as well. What really sets Chip apart is the fact that he had set up for him and Steven to get in on …show more content…
Even a simple thing as a window reels him through the time he spent tied down in an enemy trap. Rambo spent three years in Vietnam so he was looking forward to coming home, but like most other Vietnam vets, he was not welcomed as a hero as he had imagined but rather as a coward and a baby-killer. Rambo, though a fictional character, is not the only one that suffers from PTSD. According to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (in Nebraska) thirty percent of men and women who were in a warzone have PTSD, specifically more than half of male Vietnam vets have PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t necessarily tied with war, but severe traumatic cases such as rape, sexual assault or childhood abuse/neglect also can result in an individual having …show more content…
After he escapes jail and heads to the mountains, he sets booby traps, and uses guerilla warfare to take down the enemy – the members of the sheriff’s department – in which he succeeds in maiming all of them, and killing at least two. In the very end, Rambo breaks down and cries to his Colonel about how it isn’t fair that he saw all his buddies blow up right in front of him, and to come home to protestors treating him as if he was scum. In fact, his story is so depressing, the Colonel himself – a man of cold face and seemingly no emotion – almost broke down himself, but instead he went up to Rambo and offered him a gently hug. Perhaps the most moving part of the film was the outro music which had lyrics “it’s a long road, when you’re on your own, and it hurts when they tear your dreams apart. And every new town seems to bring you
Chip is in his middle adulthood, yet he acts as if he’s still a child. He frequents a place known as Medieval Times, a two-for-one entertainment and dinner type of place, and furthermore drags his “buddy” Steven to an event as well. What really sets Chip apart is the fact that he had set up for him and Steven to get in on …show more content…
Even a simple thing as a window reels him through the time he spent tied down in an enemy trap. Rambo spent three years in Vietnam so he was looking forward to coming home, but like most other Vietnam vets, he was not welcomed as a hero as he had imagined but rather as a coward and a baby-killer. Rambo, though a fictional character, is not the only one that suffers from PTSD. According to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (in Nebraska) thirty percent of men and women who were in a warzone have PTSD, specifically more than half of male Vietnam vets have PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t necessarily tied with war, but severe traumatic cases such as rape, sexual assault or childhood abuse/neglect also can result in an individual having …show more content…
After he escapes jail and heads to the mountains, he sets booby traps, and uses guerilla warfare to take down the enemy – the members of the sheriff’s department – in which he succeeds in maiming all of them, and killing at least two. In the very end, Rambo breaks down and cries to his Colonel about how it isn’t fair that he saw all his buddies blow up right in front of him, and to come home to protestors treating him as if he was scum. In fact, his story is so depressing, the Colonel himself – a man of cold face and seemingly no emotion – almost broke down himself, but instead he went up to Rambo and offered him a gently hug. Perhaps the most moving part of the film was the outro music which had lyrics “it’s a long road, when you’re on your own, and it hurts when they tear your dreams apart. And every new town seems to bring you