“Then it came, the Nineteenth Year of Servitude, shit on wheels.” Marge Piercey, an American novelist and social activist, perfectly explains how young adults all over the country felt during this time. She had saw the horrible consequences of the Vietnam War and decided to write a fictional novel about it. Not wanting the government to gain any more knowledge about the anti-war protests, she decided to write a fictional book instead. Piercey channeled her vision into four main characters to demonstrate how the Vietnam War was hurting different people in different ways. In this novel, the teenagers ,who call themselves “Indians”, rebel against the government system and the military draft.
