For Mary Anne Bell, It seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The endorphins start to flow, and creep quietly through the moonlit nightscapes; you become intimate with danger; you’re in touch with the far side of yourself, as though it’s another hemisphere, and you want to string it out and go wherever the trip takes you and be host to all the possibilities inside yourself. Not bad, she’d said. Vietnam made her glow in the dark (O'Brien, pg. 109).
I chose this passage because the initial image it placed in my mind. I digested the words, and felt like Mary in Vietnam, but instead I was Faith in my own Vietnam, on the front line of my personal war. The words in this passage can be put into different situations and still evoke the same emotions. …show more content…
Often they are small interferences, many of which are sarcastic remarks or statements that give more insight into his personal war. The goal for this paragraph is to give the reader a sense of how the character, Mary Anne Belle, gets lost in herself and how easy it is to get caught up in what interests you, so much so that it pulls you away from reality. Throughout the passage, O’Brien uses many descriptive words that stimulate the imagery making the situation clear to picture and place yourself in. In the book, this passage is ongoing without stopping or chops which make the words seem to feel more important. This paragraph ties into the chapter because the particular story could be seen as “improbable” and because it “swirls back and forth across borders between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane” (pg.
I chose this passage because the initial image it placed in my mind. I digested the words, and felt like Mary in Vietnam, but instead I was Faith in my own Vietnam, on the front line of my personal war. The words in this passage can be put into different situations and still evoke the same emotions. …show more content…
Often they are small interferences, many of which are sarcastic remarks or statements that give more insight into his personal war. The goal for this paragraph is to give the reader a sense of how the character, Mary Anne Belle, gets lost in herself and how easy it is to get caught up in what interests you, so much so that it pulls you away from reality. Throughout the passage, O’Brien uses many descriptive words that stimulate the imagery making the situation clear to picture and place yourself in. In the book, this passage is ongoing without stopping or chops which make the words seem to feel more important. This paragraph ties into the chapter because the particular story could be seen as “improbable” and because it “swirls back and forth across borders between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane” (pg.