“You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”- Michael Connelly, The Black Echo. Many people go through a transformation once they experience a life-changing event. These transformations are shown by soldiers who are suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in the movie, The Wounded Platoon, with David Nash dehumanizing hajis and doing drugs, which correlates with Mary Anne’s substantial change of behavior. War transforms regular functioning humans into soldiers who are mentally stuck in the warzone. O’Brien uses Mary Anne’s behavior to show that war affects soldiers’ behavior after they return from war. In the chapter, Sweet Heart of the Song Tra Bong, from O’Brien’s novel, “The Things They Carried” portrays Mary Anne
