When it comes to buying educational books, the first thing that perhaps comes to your mind is a well-stocked bookstore that you should visit in order to search for the book of your choice; if it is not to be found there, the search is forwarded to yet anther book shop which may be situated at some other place. The search therefore goes on for a few days, weeks and even months till you get a copy of your much coveted book. the following is a review of an educational book: Platoon.
In 1967, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) decides to drop out of college in order to join the military during the Vietnam war. After joining his platoon, He meets his two leading sergeants who are polar opposites and many other soldiers that are in his very same position, but most of them didn't any choice. After …show more content…
In Platoon these battles are hectic and all over the place. The U.S. Soldiers never knew when the Viet Cong was coming or where they were coming from, but they were pretty sure it would be a lot of them and they would soon be out numbered. Stone really tried his best to show the audience how bad it got at times when all hell broke loose in Vietnam. I'm sure that was one of the important things that he wanted to get across due to the fact that he himself served in that very war and saw a lot of this stuff first …show more content…
There's a tug of war between the two sergeants who are leading this group of soldiers, drug use, problems between the new recruits and the guys that are already there and tension between races boil over at times. It's careful in showing the many different aspects of the military life that was witnessed by the soldiers in that era. There were probably more things going on for those people back then due to the fact that most of them didn't choose to
In 1967, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) decides to drop out of college in order to join the military during the Vietnam war. After joining his platoon, He meets his two leading sergeants who are polar opposites and many other soldiers that are in his very same position, but most of them didn't any choice. After …show more content…
In Platoon these battles are hectic and all over the place. The U.S. Soldiers never knew when the Viet Cong was coming or where they were coming from, but they were pretty sure it would be a lot of them and they would soon be out numbered. Stone really tried his best to show the audience how bad it got at times when all hell broke loose in Vietnam. I'm sure that was one of the important things that he wanted to get across due to the fact that he himself served in that very war and saw a lot of this stuff first …show more content…
There's a tug of war between the two sergeants who are leading this group of soldiers, drug use, problems between the new recruits and the guys that are already there and tension between races boil over at times. It's careful in showing the many different aspects of the military life that was witnessed by the soldiers in that era. There were probably more things going on for those people back then due to the fact that most of them didn't choose to