Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. ... Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. ... With each letter, Cross was beginning to realize that Martha did not love him and according to Steve Kaplan "the girl did not love Cross," but Cross kept on hoping that maybe one day that beyon...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the poem "Facing It," Yusef Komunyakaa, an African-American, solemnly reflects over his experience serving in the Vietnam War while on a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ... The central theme of the poem is clearly evident from the beginning lines: My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. ... In a poignant recollection of his traumatizing experience in the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa uses vivid imagery, dynamic metaphor, and other poetic techniques to tackle not only his conflicted feelings towards the War, but also, more ingeniously, the force race played during hi...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4

The fact that he thinks about war in such a grand definite way of his journey adventures. ... He was beginning to feel hopeless and not confident. ... Richie Perry couldn't believe how the Vietnam War was nothing what it thought it be. ... This is how the Vietnam War changed him. ... No one, I repeat, makes it out of war in a perfect condition. ...

• Word Count: 658
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

These dichotomized feelings reflect his inner struggle with masculinity and are mirrored in his feelings towards the people of Vietnam because he searches for his identity in both the land and the women of Vietnam. ... Tuon Bunkong, who wrote an essay concerning guilt and the effects of war, writes that Andrew is guilt ridden due to the fact that, "because his parents had money, his family was able to escape the kind of poverty that seems to permeate Viet Nam," (220). ... His uncertainties of culture and gender manifest themselves in his opinions about Vietnam, and the guiltier he fe...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

War and love - they have always been compared- (152). ... Pyle thinks that the only way to help the war is to take it upon him. ... Although he seems to have found the perfect solution to the conflict in Vietnam, he is inexperienced and callow. ... It is a war; there is no perfect solution. ... No one cared for him from the beginning. ...

• Word Count: 843
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

War and love - they have always been compared- (152). ... Pyle thinks that the only way to help the war is to take it upon him. ... Although he seems to have found the perfect solution to the conflict in Vietnam, he is inexperienced and callow. ... It is a war; there is no perfect solution. ... No one cared for him from the beginning. ...

• Word Count: 840
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien is a story about a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam during the war. ... Lieutenant Cross portrays his emotional misery over Martha towards the beginning of the story: "A dark theater, he remembered...when he touched her knee, she turned and looked at him in a sad, sober way that made him pull his hand back, but he would always remember the feel of the tweed skirt and the knee beneath it how embarrassing it was, how slow and oppressive." ...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The factual information changing into speculative information shows a retreat from the war mentality. ... When Tim was in Vietnam he was young, he now uses the tactic of remembering and immortalizing these memories through writing as a method in order to cope with the painful reality he has experienced. ... He is beginning to heal. ...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School