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War is not what is advertised, portrayed in Hollywood, or in games like Call of Duty. The experiences of war like atrocities and misfortunes lead to drastic changes in the morals of soldiers. The alteration of morals leaves many soldiers prone to commit unscrupulous actions as they disregard morals by focusing on of surviving in war’s hostile environment. Additionally, many soldiers form part of the war culture found around the world as they envision violence as a viable problem solver. Kate…

The Vietnam War brought many concerns to American Citizens. Protesters throughout the United States claimed America’s involvement in the war was both unjust and unethical. Likewise, Tim O’Brien, the author of many Vietnam based novels, expressed the same feelings of unjust and unethical means for America’s involvement in the war. In 1968, O’Brien graduated with his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and within the same year was drafted to the United States Army and served his time in…

Wilhelm likens her village to the My Lai massacre in order to essentially bring the war back home to America by comparing what happened to the Vietnamese citizens in real life to that of the American civilians in the village. “The Village”, being written in 1969, is during the Vietnam War in which American citizens are protesting against being involved with a war related to Vietnamese independence. For example, Wilhelm uses Mildred Carry as a writing strategy to show that Americans soldiers are…

While reading The Things They Carried, I had a lot of comments to make about the style of writing, the stories O’Brien chose to recreate, and his meaning behind the writing. I have never read a book similar to The Things They Carried, and I doubt I ever will. O’Brien is unique in the way he combined nonfiction with fiction and differentiated between the two. He told the reader a lie, and then called his own bluff. This is something I admire in a writer; the ability to be both completely honest…

One war that clouds the United States with shame is the Vietnam War. The United States joining the war was an unpopular decision and was resented by many. Many stories have been told from the Vietnam war. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried features the Alpha Company, a United States army unit that fought during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was unique because the United States drafted men to be in the army. This situation was true for some of the men in the Alpha Company, including Tim…

In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, he shows the struggles that American soldiers’ experience in the Vietnam war. In one of the short stories the “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” one of the soldiers, Mark Fossie, brings over Mary Anne Bell, his high school sweetheart, from back home. She quickly becomes curious about her surroundings in a foreign country far from home and what occurs around them in Vietnam, where she learns of the power and destruction of war. Mary Anne Bell…

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The song “Fortunate Son,” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969, reflects the sentiment of the vocal youth during Nixon’s presidency. The lyrics, laced with anti-war messages, constitute a larger, politically influential piece of music that many resonated with at the time. By the late 1960s, opposition to the war seemed to leave a deep division in the foundations of society. Small, organized college campus groups did not foresee how many people their movement would encompass once the…

Toward the start of the conflict in Vietnam, the media was basically in favor of the war, as most American had been at the time. The worst of the casualties that occurred during the war were yet to come or were unknown by the general public, and the Cold War era was largely characterized by nationalism over anti-nationalism and the promoting of freedom from the spread of fascist and communist influences. Later, as more of the American and innocent casualties came to light, protests by hippies…

Carried Through the War An estimated one million American soldiers died in the Vietnam War. The war was brutal, and even though I have not experienced war directly, I can imagine a persistent death awaiting each and every individual on the battlefield. It is his short story “The Things They Carried”, by author and writer Tim O’ Brien, that I believe truly illustrates the hardships and death of the Vietnam War and how they affected soldiers physically, spiritually, and mentally. To begin with,…