Caputo had one of the most unique perspectives on the war possible. He was a young Marine lieutenant when the Marines first came ashore in force in Vietnam in March of 1965. ... The marines in Vietnam and any war in general are trained and taught that killing is there primary objective. ... The Vietnam War was different from any other war in our history because of the type of warfare that was being used our solders had never fought in or even seen. ... In the beginning of the book I could not quite understand his thirst for war and fighting. ...

• Word Count: 984
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

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

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