So O'Brien feels as if it is important to tell his readers, through Rat's story of course, how the men see Mary Anne. ... - (O'Brien 105) The likeness that Mary Anne's situation has to the direct audience of Rat's story makes his tale that much more believable to the anxious listeners. ... O'Brien states the point on hand best when he tells us that "Rat Kiley couldn't help it [cluttering up the story]. ... No matter how accurate or truthful a story might be it is not proactive to tell unless it provokes understanding from those who hear it. ... These fi...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," tells a vivid, gruesome, realistic, and terrifying story of one of America's worst battles just after it ended in 1975. ... Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. Aside from the adaptation of Heart of Darkness's story into the film Apocaly...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Vietnamese's respectful opinion of the magnanimity of prostitution is grounded in the country's literary cultural epic, Tale of Kieu. ... Andrew writes that he wishes he "could tell her of the warmth and respect" he feels towards her because he appreciates her, "selfless devotion to her family," (135). ... It is in the beginning and middle of his journey that he tells of spending time with prostitutes. ...

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