Bao Ninh's The Sorrow Of The Vietnam War

In her book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, author Marilyn Young examines the series of political and military struggles between the United States and Vietnam, a nation that has been distinctively separated as the South and the North. Young chooses to express the daily, weekly, monthly progresses of the affairs collectively called the Vietnam Wars, focusing on the American interventions in the foreign soil. She seeks to provide an answer to a question that has haunted the world for years: What was the reason behind the United States interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country in which it had no claims at all? Young discloses the overt as well as covert actions undertaken by the U.S. government officials regarding the foreign affairs with Vietnam and the true nature of the multifaceted objectives of each and every person that’s involved had.

He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.

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As communism began to spread steadily and gain more and more attention, Americans became immensely concerned in what most saw as a detrimental threat. President Eisenhower only added to the hysteria by outlining the Domino Theory: the theory that a political event, in this case referring to the spread communism, in one country will cause a similar turn of events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino that causes an entire row to fall down. Although the Vietnam War is seen by many as the only option to try to end the spread of communism, the specious outcome of the war was not effective enough to justify the amount of unethical decisions and situations that were allowed to take place. In 1961, under President Kennedy, 100 Special Forces troops were sent to South Vietnam and by 1963, just two years later, U.S military advisors and Special Forces had increased to 21,000 troops. We will soon see that this is just the beginning and in my paper I will outline the full record of events all the way to the end of the war, including the reasons for U.S involvement, unethical decisions that were made, America 's effort to end the war, and the lasting impact the war had on the United States.

Vietnam was so significant to the United States partly as it would be the first war they would lose. It also had a tremendous financial impact on the country and the casualties were also more in the public eye than ever before due to the media. They learnt that: "a long war for limited objectives, with its steady stream of body bags, will not be supported by the American people" (Martino, 1996, p37). Some suggest that the US should have avoided any involvement in the war.

The setting varies a lot in this story because it’s a story about the life of Tim O’ Brien. But most of the time the stories take place in Vietnam. Because this story is about the author, you can find a lot of flashbacks to his hometown Massachusetts. This way you can clearly see the contrast between his hometown and Vietnam before the war and after the war. In the story there are two main places where the actions take place namely Quang Ngai and Massachusetts. Quang Ngai is where the war takes place and Massachusetts is where Tim O’ Brien is from and where he did live.

There are two distinctly different and contradictory societies in Vietnam: Saigon and the rest. “Saigon and Vietnam are as different, almost literally, as night and day.” (para. 6)

The Vietnam War was a time of mayhem for America, with the citizens divided over the issue of war. This did not exclude the narrator of The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien who was compromised, baffled even, by his draft into a war he did not support. In an attempt to escape his fate of deployment into Vietnam, O'Brien follows suit as many others did and attempts to escape across the Canadian border. He, however, has an encounter that drives him to go back, and that encounter is with Elroy Berdahl, an inn owner in Minnesota. From O'Brien's cryptic descriptions and interactions with this man, ending in a change of heart for O'Brien, the reader can understand that O'Brien did not have an encounter with simply a man named Elroy Berdahl, but rather

“The war in vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. The Vietnam War was considered one of America’s greatest defeats of all time. Not only did the US failed to stop the spread of communism, but they also embarrassed this country as a whole with the outcome of this war. The overall outcome from this war will be remembered for years to come. In this essay, I will be talking about how the United States would have won the Vietnam war if the home front was for the war, if the the US was more familiar with the land, and the U.S.’s goal was not successful.

The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was a conflict between the nationalist forces that wanted to unify the country under a communist government, against the United States and South Vietnam who wanted to prevent the spread of communism. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Kiowa, Norman Bowker, and Marry Anne Bell, each carry a particular something that symbolizes a characteristic that is portrayed throughout and after the Vietnam War. Kiowa, a foot soldier, an American Indian, and a devout Baptist, carries a bible symbolizing his morality, which is demonstrated throughout the war. Norman Bowker, another foot soldier who is gentle and quiet, carries a diary symbolizing that he struggles to know himself and is mentally lost after the war. Mary Anne Bell, a seventeen-year-old high

“The Things They Carried” shares many stories from the Vietnam War. The author Tim O’Brien often shares several perspectives about the war through his fellow brothers in arms. Often it seems to O’Brien the act of storytelling becomes more important than the stories told. The Vietnam War was a historical era marked by confusion and conflict, from the disagreement over the war to the inconsistent and unstructured war of attrition that soldiers were asked to fight.

When we first read the title we can get a pretty good handle on what the book is going to be about. A Better War is a novel about the victories, military balance, tactics used, and the last final tragic years in Vietnam. The book not only gives us incite on how the war was fought but also about what was achieved during the 7 years in Vietnam.

The narrator states, “ Then he walked in a citizenly way to the end of the car, where he pulled the emergency cord.”

The history of recent years in the Indochina conflict has been an eventful one. It will exhibit to the eyes of the future student some of the most remarkable instances of a ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity. Moreover, it will, I believe, demonstrate that North Vietnam has, for a long time, steadily pursued a communist regime which was deliberately designed to produce a subjugation of other countries by the threat of communism.

I chose this song because it represents the complex social issues of the Vietnam war times by simply emphasizing on the point at the war in Vietnam is a result of people not "giving peace a chance" to work out. I like the continual repetition of this song "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I like this refrain a lot because it reminds listeners that peace is something that can be achieved if individuals get all together to to embrace it.