hey my peoplez!!! i know this is late but i had some trouble with my computer. well i thought the story was boring and i hated the book. it was sooooo boring and at times it made no sense. i know the stories had some meaning behind it but it was just not exciting. i give the book a D. i wrote a prompt before this and i had three really cool quotes ( Read more... )

hey my peoplez. i think o'brien wrote this book so that he can express his ideas about vietnam. not a lot of people know about the war and don't have an interest in it. maybe he wanted to educate peoplez. i think he also wanted to share some stories about the war. even though it says it's a work of fiction there may be some truth to it. each story ( Read more... )

The statement in the beginning of the book changes my perspective about the story. The stories to me seemed real and i thought that they were nonfiction. But reading the stories makes me wonder if this really happened, and if it is true, did the author add anything else to the story to make it seem more interesting and dramatic. I think it should ( Read more... )

Hey peoplez. i know this is kinda late but im really behind on school stuff. the story tells how a foreign culture can change the way you are. Mary Anne Bell changed completely from this sweet girl into a whole Vietnam-loving person. she cut her hair and started to wear tongue necklaces (ewww). in this story it showed the differences between both ( Read more... )

hey my peoplez. I think shame drives both stupidity and acts of heroism. because if you are in a war but you really don't want to be, you're still going to try to survive and do everything possible to live. but you still have that feeling of not wanting to be there and so you don't feel courageous. it can drive stupidity because you want to get the ( Read more... )

hey my peoplez. my link is just a few facts about vietnam war. it's a few facts and statistics about the people who served in the war, what they did, and some background info. Go to ( Read more... )

my entry is kinda late, but o well. The first thirty pages were kinda boring. I did not need to know all the things they carried. The surprising parts to me was the type of obsession that Jimmy Cross has over Martha. I don't think it's a healthy obsession. But at the end he realizes that they will never be and it's sad that he still loves her

hey peoplez