Poem Analysis: Johnny's Life In Vietnam

Once upon a time there was a boy named Johnny. He was a writer and loved to read the poems from the girl he liked, which he kept in a plastic bag to keep it safe. Every night he would carefully take out the poems, making sure not to rip it and read them as the sun goes down. He was a leader the of a small unit in Vietnam during the midst of a war. Johnny loved the girl and could not stop thinking about about her, even when there is a war going on. At night Johnny would always dream about the girl and being together with her, even out in combat he would sometimes daydream about her instead of focusing on the war. Everywhere he went he would carry the poems from the girl along with his belongings. He was not always like this, before he met the …show more content…
After wandering around aimlessly for hours Johnny came across a clear river up in the mountains of the jungle. Near the edge of the lake a girl was sitting on top of a large rock watching the fishes in the river. Johnny approaches the girl and asks “ what are you doing, do you know where we are”. “Watching the fishes” she replies. Their was a moment of silence but then she finally says I like to write poems about nature. For the next hour they talked, Johnny read some of her poems and fell in love with from the moment he read them. After a while Johnny's unit found him and he had to leave, as he was leaving the girl gave him the poems she wrote. Ever since then he has never seen the again and he misses her. After that Johnny could not stop thinking about her, and the only thing to remember her by was her poems she had given him. One day while out on patrol with his unit, two of his man went of to fetch water. Johnny had not notice that they were gone because the only thing on his mind at that point was the girl that he had met along the clear river. On their way back they were both shot and killed right in front of Johnny and the