Hey Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm excited.....last prompt and the book is done with!!! Now a reflection on the book: if I were to rate this book from 1-10 (1 the lowest 10 the highest) I'd give it like a 4. I mean the repeating of things and such really bored me. I also think it's because i felt mislead. I was expecting the book to get better as we ( Read more... )

Hey All!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you all had a great break, but anyways as for the story, I'm really starting to mot like it anymore. The repetiveness is getting to me and right when you think the story is going to get to the good part, it switches and talks about something different and it's making me really mad!!!!! But as for why O'Brien wrote this ( Read more... )

Hello everyone!!!! Sorry my prompt is a little late :-/ Now as for the story being fictional, I was shocked that day we were in class to find out none of it was true. Obviously the author has a really strong writing technique because the story kind of pulled me in and made me believe that all of these things the soldiers were doing was true!!! But ( Read more... )

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Hey guys!!!!!!!!! To begin this prompt I’m going to give a quote I really liked and could reflect a lot on the book with. (If for some reason you want to look the quote up later you can find it on page 85 the last paragraph.) “And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn ( Read more... )

Hey! So how about I just wrote a really nice prompt for tonight until I started reading everyone else’s and realized, ”Hey I did the wrong one!!!!” So now I have to come up with another prompt so I’m not to happy!!!!! :-( So the topic is shame in the lives of soldiers. In my opinion shame and pride can go hand-in-hand. When someone has pride in ( Read more... )

Hello Everyone!!!!! Ok so prompt 2, but let me just start off saying I do NOT like this whole finding a link thing, it took a long time because there were so many things that I could have concentrated on I didn't really know where to start!!! Anyways I found a few. Now days there are many movies out there about the Vietnam War. One I found that Ii ( Read more... )

HEY GUYS!!!!! So this is the first entry and I'm going to start off by giving an overview of what happened in my opinion. So the beginning was a little hard to get into because the author was just telling us what each man carried; physically and mentally. But one problem I ran into was I had a hard time remembering who was who? Anyways as the story ( Read more... )