December 4‚ 2013 History 287 The Vietnam War Romance Of War In the book‚ “Novel Without a Name‚” by Duong Thu Huong‚ the novel is told from the North Vietnamese viewpoint in the Vietnam War. There are many themes that are shown throughout the novel. However‚ the three main themes are the effects of the war to its soldiers‚ the relationships and the love between each soldier‚ and the symbolism of nature throughout the novel. I will explain how the war has an effect on these three main themes
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Shaun Tan’s The Arrival contains an affluence of images that depict world issues such as Immigration and colonisation; however no commentary thus far has addressed the depicted image of war. Through the application of Ekphrasis and close reading analyse‚ I intend to draw attention to the importance image of war plays upon on the audience in relation to the construct of image as language. Ekphrasis can be defined as a graphic‚ dramatic reading of a visual work‚ bringing forth the image shown vividly
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American author who writes stories based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. O’Brien‚ throughout the story ‘The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong’‚ describes the changes that Mary Anne goes through during her time in Vietnam. Mary Anne’s physical and mental changes that she goes through during her time in Vietnam also press and signify the changes that the soldiers‚ and possibly the civilians‚ go through in a time of war. O’Brien also chooses to have Rat tell this story even though O’Brien informs
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the Vietnam War was different from WWII. Instead of engaging in open battle with a distinct front‚ Vietnam was more about search and destroy. Locating the enemy was more difficult than killing him. The endless monotony of the march deprives the soldiers from feeling as though they’ve accomplished anything - no battles won or lost. This increases the sense of ambiguity in the war and in the book. The novel makes strategic shifts back and forth between first and third person. The first chapter is
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chemical agent‚ napalm would leave the enemy dead or with everlasting effects from the burns. Not only was it dangerous‚ it was also versatile in that it could be used in a variety of delivery methods. Napalm was used very wildly during the Vietnam War. Napalm is “chemical mixture of aluminum‚ oleic acid‚ coconut fatty acid‚ naphthenic‚ and an acid produced from petroleum” (new standard encyclopedia). Napalm is like a sticky jelly that is extremely flammable and can burn for up to ten minutes creating
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common cover of When the Hipchicks went to War‚ by Pamela Rushby‚ represents the cultural context and values of the text. This cover represents the geographical context of Vietnam‚ the innocence of the main characters (personal context)‚ the freedom of the late 1960’s (social context) and the Vietnam War period (Historical context). The composer uses a range of visual literacy techniques to represent these contexts and values. When the Hipchicks went to War tells the story of a group of young Australian
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beautiful about a man being killed but that ’s how he saw it. That ’s how his mind saw it. During the war a soldier can get so used to death and killing. Maybe by just seeing it happen so often that they start to critique it and see the beauty in it. This is what the soldiers see then in that moment but when they go back and retrieve that memory they don ’t know what is true and what isn ’t true. The war has affected
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families struggles and how they each handle these struggles individually‚ as well as a family. Grooms opens up the story with Walter as a soldier in the Vietnam war‚ attempting to show the audience the hardships in Vietnam. Walter is seeming to have trouble writing a letter to the family of a friend that has recently been killed during the war. While writing this letter‚ it triggers memories‚ and the audience is then thrown into Walters life growing up as a kid‚ showing the hard times of growing up
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In several stories from The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien deals with the way that American soldiers of the Vietnam War related to being "in country‚" or out of their own country and halfway across the world. O’Brien creates the concept that Vietnam‚ and the war there‚ is of "another world" throughout his stories. None of the soldiers he writes about feel at home in Vietnam‚ and none of them successfully adapt emotionally to being so far from home. O’Brien subtly introduces the concept of
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memory by making the background the memory they want you to remember. We see this in all three films that war is the canvas of the film and is preserved through the details of the individual’s own recollections of the events. In this paper I will focusing on Peter Davis’s documentary Hearts and Minds; John
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