A Character Analysis Of Richie Perry In Vietnam

Throughout the story of this one deployment, there are parts where the author talks about his early life as well as some parts of his earlier days in the Army. The author puts these Stories in to the book in an intriguing way to help explain why and how the author ended up where he did.

This all comes down to the conclusion that maybe, If Perry would have lived a better life and more care was given to him from his parents and his parents more responsible and a bit

As a child Perry grew up with a limited education. When he is young and after his parent’s divorce Perry is living with his dad and is going to school. He finishes grade three but after that he never returns. Perry’s father moves from state to state throughout his childhood and prevents Perry from returning to school. Perry’s father wants Perry to stay with him instead of going to school so he can do work and take care of him. As Perry grows older however he understands that his father kept him out of school and Perry becomes extremely angry with him. Smith stated, “That bastard never gave me a chance. He wouldn’t let me go to school…. he didn’t want me to learn anything, only how to tote and carry for him. Dumb. Ignorant. That’s the way he wanted me to be. So that I could never escape him” (Capote 185). However, Perry is an intelligent and talented man with great potential. He has natural music ability, he likes to read and improve his vocabulary, and he also knows how to draw. In spite of this he never received encouragement from his father or anyone else: “Oh, the man I could have been! ... But the time came I begged to go to school. I happen to have a brilliant

In “Soldier’s Home” the story revolves around the fact that going to war changed Harold Krebs. When he left going overseas he was a young

children to raise. He was not getting enough attention as he wanted at home, he got his

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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” ~ Bertrand Russell. The famous quote from Bertrand Russell describes the reality of war. War only lets the powerful and the wealthy side win and not the righteous side. On an average 378,000 people die each year at war while 1,450,000 people died in the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war started on 1 November 1955 and lasted until 30 April 1975. The war was fought between the North Vietnamese Communist government and the South Vietnamese Communist rebels known as the Viet Cong against the non-Communist South Vietnamese government and their ally U.S.A. The war destroyed the life of both, the North and South Vietnamese along with the other nations that took part in it. More than 1 million people were killed including civilians and over 3 million injured. Thousand were wives were left widows and hundreds of kids orphans. After consistent protests by the Americans, U.S.A withdrew from the later stages of war. The Vietnam War is a depiction that wars are murky and filthy and should be circumvented as they bring agony and desolation to the people. To show this I used three different mediums which are - Political Cartoon “Name a

He doesn’t want his son to get hurt the same way he did w sports. Wants him to have a better life than he has. Wants him to find a girl like Rose. &&. No, bc people went straight into the work force back then, so going into college would put him in dept, and maybe even not work out in the long run.

Part two of the novel, Perry's backstory is revealed and the reader is compelled to sympathize with Perry much more than before. It is shown that Perry's father left him and his mother when he was young and that his mother turned to alcohol to cope. Alcohol is demonized in the eyes of Perry due to his mother's dependency on it. This helps to depict Perry as an honest man who wants to be a functioning member of society, rather than the drunken mess that is his mother. Perrys early life is shown to be a very abusive and unwelcoming place for a child, these facts are presented without mention of his involvement with street gangs and petty crime. The true backstory of Perry Smith is indeed a sad one, but it also

He then decides to join the school of military and then be enlisted in the armed forces. At the beginning, it seemed as if he was not cut out for the armed forces, but he found acceptance was with time. After being involved in war, he toughened up (CW, 2010). After he served his time in the war, Wes left the military as a veteran and got into business while pursuing all the opportunities that he could get.

Growing up perry had an abundance of drama in his life it all started when his mother and father began fighting with each other on a regular basis, this later lead to them to getting a divorce and perry's father dragging him across the country while leaving his other sibling behind with the care of their drunken mother. As one would think getting away from a mother who drinks too much is a good thing, but in perry’s case it wasn’t, perry was forced to live with his father a man who is cruel and abusive to

The Things They Carried is a story based on the experiences of young American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. The story begins giving you insight into the thoughts of the soldiers, describing to you what they humped along with them through their walk in the deep jungle of Vietnam. Some of those things were necessities P-38 can openers, pocket knives, heat tabs, wristwatches, dog tags, mosquito repellent, chewing-gum, candy, cigarettes, salt tablets (81) and some were objects to give them hope. Throughout the story you follow a young platoon of men on their journey through the jungle never knowing which day could be the last day of their lives. The author, Tim O’Brien, using very accurate description and detail gives us

Perry was surrounded with convicts who had done much worse crimes than stealing. Perry comes from a dysfunctional family. He grew up without being taught right from wrong. When he was a child he was happy however, his family went through a divorce and he lost his mother and two of his sisters. His father used to brutally beat his mother, which led her into her drinking problem and her eventual death. Due to his poor childhood and family life, Perry was “in and out of detention homes many times” (Capote 277). The nuns where Perry stayed at one point used to humiliate him and beat him for wetting the bed. From the day Perry was born he was set up for failure, he was poorly raised and did not have any help along the way to

after he served in World War I. It deals with the postwar life of expatriates and veterans

It was no different for the individual I chose to interview. My interviewee is a male that served in the United States Marine Corps. He grew up in a small town in Mississippi. He remembers himself as a rebellious teenager. He knew that he did not have the money for college, and joining the military was an option. The Marine Corps, not only would assist in college funding, but it would give him the chance to travel the world. At 17-years old his mother signed the paperwork in 1995 so that he could enlist, but because of delayed entry he did not go to boot camp in San Diego, California until July of 1996.