Song Tra Bong” a true war story is that it offers no moral. Tim O’Brien depicts an innocent, seventeen-year-old girl who travels overseas to visit her sweetheart in Vietnam. There, she discovers her love for the land and the war instead, transitioning into a radical soldier. However, O’Brien asserts no lesson to learn from Mary Anne’s loss of innocence. He simply states, “You come over clean and you get dirty and afterward it’s never the same” (O’Brien, “The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” 114).…
The last movie I watched was the mighty girl. This was a very fluffy romantic comedy with a hint of darkness. The movie is about a girl named Kang So-hwi played by Shin Min-ah. Her parents were gifted in martial arts and she inherited their gift. However, she no longer wants to do martial arts due to the fact she gets called manly and unfeminine. She tries to change and become more feminine in order to get a guy who happens to be in the ice hockey team. Her dad, wanting her to go back to martial…
beginning of the piece, O’Brien provides his own circumstances of what a war story must encompass to be ‘true’. Each chapter of the book holds a war story told by a various character or the author himself. As a focus, the chapter The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong has a lot of factors which should be examined for truth. Overall, I believe that the story told may not be factually true, but is emotionally true to the story teller, Rat Kiley. For every story told there are reasons to defend or deny…
as Tim, while some soldiers felt an extreme amount of patriotism for the United States. These people indulged in the war, volunteering without a second thought. This is not necessarily true for one soldier, but close. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne is a character who volunteers her service in the war, furthermore, the war is her life, and there is no where else she would rather be. Mary Anne describes the war effects as “I feel close to myself” (O’Brien “SOTST” 106). Mary Anne…
voyage. For example, every time one of Riley’s memory islands crashes and falls into the memory dump the music becomes slow and depressing. However, when Joy is chasing Riley’s imaginary friend, Bing Bong, the music speeds up and begins to sound like carnival music. This is appropriate because Bing Bong is part elephant and made of cotton candy. Another instance of slow, sad music is when Bing Bong’s rocket gets thrown into the dump. He is depressed because whatever is thrown in the dump stays…
Inside Out Have you ever been forced to leave your loved ones and the perfect life all behind you? In the movie of Inside Out there’s a little girl who is name is Riley she had everything what she asked for. All she has is friends to share a great bon together, an hockey team to show her great talent, and last the most important part an loving family who will sport her along the way. Sadly all of that beautiful moment changed drastically. Riley was forced to move to San Francisco, because her…
named Kim Kyung-ho (Ahn Sung-ki) holding a crossbow in front of the building’s entrance of Judge Park Bong-joo’s (Kim Eung-soo) home. When Judge Park Bong-joo arrives at his home, Kim Kyung-ho confronts him and threatens him with the crossbow, demanding an apology for not following the law. The two men start to fight and Kim Kyung-ho is arrested and prosecuted for allegedly shooting Judge Park Bong-joo.…
This unique gadget is a vaporizer made by Storz & Bickel in Germany. You can buy the Volcano Vaporizer in its classic form or in a digital form. Both vaporizers have temperature control settings to heat up the marijuana. The vapor is then filled into the attached balloon. This is proven to be a safer method for inhaling cannabis, as the Volcano Vaporizer eliminates almost all of the tar and carcinogens exhibited through marijuana smoke. The price runs from $300-$400. 2. DIY Weed Kit A…
shows up a few time in the novel. In the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, it states “During her first days in-country she liked to roam around the compound asking questions: What exactly was a trip flare? How did a Claymore work? What was behind those scary green mountains to the west?” (Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong/pg 91). This was Mary Anne when she first arrived to war. In the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, it states, “At the end of the second week, when four casualties…
Vietnam War was very bad, and how pointless it was. The story’s that are being talked about are, How to tell a true war story, and the sweetheart of the song tra bong. The soldiers talk about if they are true war stories or made up. It is going to talk about two war stories, how to tell a true war story, and the sweetheart of the song tra bong. They talk about the two stories, how if it’s real or fake, and how they say it almost sounds made up. The stories are going to talk about how the war was…