Black Guerrilla Family

Selfishness is defined as a person who only cares for themselves and ignores the thoughts, feelings, or needs of others. Graham Greene manifests two different types of Thomas Fowler in the “The Quite American”: a war spectator Fowler in the beginning and war active Fowler at the end of the novel. Fowler is a British journalist that reports the war in Vietnam. It is in Vietnam, where he meets Phuong, a beautiful and relatively young Vietnamese girl who becomes his new lover in his life. After…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

This observation was probably made by the novelist as he had travelled all over India, even to the Punjab, during his service in the army. However, this is a very dispassionate description of the carnage, although its horrors have been described very graphically. He too must have been stunned by the violence and the carnage that was the culmination of the freedom struggle. Manohar Malgonkar has also drawn the attention of the reader towards the ideals which no longer hold water and the creed of…

Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien describes American soldiers who bear to take a physical and mental pain during the Vietnam war. Some soldiers have to carry emotional baggage after someone’s loss and some soldiers carry pictures of their loved ones, family or friends who die during the war. They also take different types of weapons such as guns and knives. As the Orlando Sentinel quoted, “The Things They Carried carries not only the soldiers’ intangible burdens-grief, terror, love, longing- but…

Furthermore, Francis Coppola similarly critiques the values of his context at the end of this text through Dennis Hopper, a creative minded, drugged up photo journalist broadcasting the atrocities of war Vietnam. Hoppers sporadic costume design of multiple cameras dangling from his neck as well as the low angle shot and dialogue to Willard “I’m an American” illustrates the emphasis Coppola had on showcasing the dominance and impact media had on the war which consequently formed the anti-war…

The experience of the soldiers of the Vietnam War presents itself within the poems, “Camouflaging the Chimera” by Yusef Koumunyakaa and “A Piece of Sky without Bombs” by Lam Thi My Da. In Koumunyakaa’s poem, the author describes the experience of the American Soldiers as they travelled through the secluded jungles of Vietnam, waiting for the Vietcong to attack. The purpose of this poem is to highlight the experiences of a soldier in Vietnam, rather than just looking in from an outside…

along with multiple other themes. But, the main theme for this book is the soldiers’ fear of showing signs of weakness. The soldiers do not want people to see them as weak including: their friends, family, and other members of their squad. The main character, Tim O’Brien, feared disappointing his family and hometown for running away from being drafted into the war. In this quote from the book it shows how Tim was afraid of losing respect from people and looking weak, ¨ I feared losing the…

Women and men’s roles in society varied greatly during the Vietnam War. While women avoided the draft, protected from its brutality and tragedies, men were forced from their homes to serve in the ambiguous battles. In O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, women are portrayed as apathetic towards these soldiers. They are the homebound sex, not aware of the world outside their own. On the other hand, men are those who carry the weight of the world, submerged in the pain and politics of war. There…

Stories Since the War is captivating whereas it displays the powerful impact it had on the troops, families as well as the anti-war activists. As I was reading the exchange between the veterans and non-veterans, I realized America was split into two separate teams. The non-veteran felt they should be praised for the anti-war protests. On the other hand…

20th Century The Vietnam War escalated from a Vietnamese civil war into a limited international conflict in which the U.S was deeply involved. The Vietnam War was fought in South Vietnam between government forces, which were aided by the U.S, and guerrilla forces, which were aided by the North Vietnamese. Despite increased American military involvement and signed peace agreements in 1973, the Vietnam War did not end until North Vietnam successfully invaded South Vietnam in 1975. The Vietnam War…