Mary Anna Character Analysis

What would be your first reaction if you found a singing girl in the middle of a campsite with a human tongue necklace? The singing girl’s name is Mary Anne, and she was a straight- out-of-high-school student who went to go visit her boyfriend during war. She became very intrigued with the war which lead her to participate like a soldier. The things that Mary Anne saw taking place in the war transformed her into a killer, and during the war gender was irrelevant so Mary anne blended in like the next soldier; O'brien let Rat tell the story because he was there, and Rat’s story fits O'brien’s criteria for a true war story.

Mary Anna had transformed into a killer. Mary Anne had transformed into a killer because of the things she experienced …show more content…
In this chapter Rat says “Mary anne wasn't afraid to get her hands bloody. At times in fact, she seems fascinated by it.”Mary Anne's face would sometimes take a form of serene and composure when she helped with causalities. When Rat is telling his story he says “ In times of action her face took on a sudden new composure, almost serene, the fuzzy blue eyes narrowing into a tight intelligent focus.” Mary Anne had left the campsite for three weeks and when she returned she was different. One the night of her return Rat, Eddie Diamond and Fossie found Mary anne in a well lit circle chanting there had been no emotion in her eyes but what she did have was a necklace of human tongues. Rat says “In part it was her eyes: utterly no emotion in her stare,no sense of person …show more content…
During the war society believed that woman had to get a husband,stay at home and have kids. Society deemed woman to be unfit to join the war. The soldiers in the war she was with didn't care that she was a women they actual were impressed by her. The soldiers were impressed by her because she wanted to get a feel of how people lived and the smells and customs when she first got there. A soldier named Rat thought she was sharp minded. In the story it states “A good sharp mind,Rat said. True,she could be silly sometimes, but she picked up on things fast.” In her second week she learned to disassemble a M-16 by Eddie Diamond. This showed that Eddie Diamond a soldier in the war hadn't cared about Mary Anne being a woman because he still taught her how to disassemble the gun. If Eddie had cared about her being a woman and treated her how society treated women he wouldn't have taught her. Mary Anne had change how she dress and no longer cared that her nails got dirty. The soldier didn't care that she change because in war you don't care about small things like that. There was one person who did cared that she was a women and that was her boyfriend Fossie. He didn't like how how she no longer had the feminine aspects. One day when Mary Anna had came back from a ambush she and Fossie had a set some rules. When she had came back she was once again dress like how she came. The