Crashed And Planted Analysis

Further on into the section, King proclaims, “They wander into the hospitals, with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one "Vietcong"-inflicted injury” (8). What this shows is that through the United States’ search for dominance, it has resulted in taking a violent action. The U.S. government believed that if they were not in control of Vietnam, the spread of communism and their downfall in dominance would still be an issue. Since the Vietnamese people were in search for their independence, they wouldn’t accept being under the control of another nation, therefore, for the United States, they saw violence as their only solution.

Mother has a hard time leaving her home because it was a symbol of her family and better times that she didn’t want to let go of. In the poem “Missing in Action,” Ha explains how her family has ceremony to pray and wish for his return and Ha says, “...Mother locks it [a portrait of her father] away as soon as her chant ends. // She cannot bear to look into Father’s forever-young eyes (Lai 13).” No one misses Father and mourns the loss of him more than Mother and therefore Father’s portrait reminds Mother of better times before the war corrupted their lives. The poem “Birthday” says “Mother and Father came south, convinced it would be easier to breathe away from the Communism (Lai 28).” Mother thought leaving North Vietnam and coming to South

The Vietnam War that commenced on November 1, 1955, and ended on April 30, 1975, took the soldiers through a devastating experience. Many lost their lives while others maimed as the war unfolded into its full magnitude. The book Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam by Bernard Edelman presents a series of letters written by the soldiers to their loved ones and families narrating the ordeals and experiences in the Warfield. In the book, Edelman presents the narrations of over 200 letters reflecting the soldiers’ experiences on the battlefield. While the letters were written many decades ago, they hold great significance as they can mirror the periods and the contexts within which they were sent. This paper takes into account five letters from different timelines and analyzes them against the events that occurred in those periods vis a vis their significance. The conclusion will also have a personal opinion and observation regarding the book and its impacts.

The book, The Latehomecomer, is a fascinating story about a Hmong family and their struggle to get out of Laos and come to America as refugees. The Hmong people are a very proud people and they do not want to forget their culture. One can clearly see that the Hmong people hold close their identity and do not want to conform to the Vietnamese way. They take pride in their culture, their society, and the way they view how government should run. Hmong people did not agree with the Vietnamese communist government and were willing to join forces and help the United States as much as possible so that they could fight for what they believed in. Even though most of the young men and boys that fought in the war died in battle or were

Throughout the chapters Young keeps revealing evolvements during the war that lead to her ultimate inference that “the United States invaded Vietnam against our stated values and ideals and that it did so secretly and deceptively, fighting a war of immense violence in order to impose its will on another sovereign nation” (Young x). While Young allows the reader to arrive at a decision in the moral context, it’s impossible to ignore her anti-war stance that sets the tone of her telling of the events. Documents directly related to or by people who had been involved in the war joined with her interactions with people who have had

In the poem, “Saigon is gone” , written by Thanhha Lai in the book “Inside Out and Back Again” expresses the tone of serious and scary. This poem is about a girl who is trying to escape the Vietnam War. When Hà, the main character, is on an escape boat she states, “people run and scream,” (page 68). The words “run and scream” represent a tone of scary because if I were to be in that situation, I would be very frightened and scared. Hà also writes, “ The pilot appeared below deck, wet and shaking.” (page 68). The condition that Hà was in seems very tense and alarming. The words, “wet and shaking” exemplify a very spine-chilling situation, which sets the tone for the poem. Closer to the end of the poem Hà, quotes what the pilot says below deck,

In the Transcript: “Forgotten Ship: A Daring Rescue as Saigon Fell” the overall tone is fear and panic and it exhibits that most families in Saigon were very scared and worried. One example of the tone is when the transcript states “Marine helicopters descended on the South Vietnamese capital. More than 6,000 persons, as many as 900 of them Americans ,the rest Vietnamese and third country nationals were evacuated,plucked from U.S Embassy grounds , from rooftops throughout the city and from the nearby Tan Son Nhat Airport” to describe that the 33.3% of the South Vietnamese were evacuated because of the fall of Saigon. This word choice expresses panic and sends that message that it was a very harsh and alarming for the nationals. Another

It is very difficult for Ha’s family to decide of they leave or not. First they are worried about father. “Brother Khoi says, What if Father comes home and finds his family gone?” (Page 44). Father would be worried that his family was killed, and he wasn’t there to protect them from North Vietnam. Second they don’t want to lose their dignity. “How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country.” (Page 44). They are worried that the country will fall apart and without everyone helping they won’t be able to rebuild it. Last is that Ha and Brother Khoi don’t want to leave their papayas and chicken. “No matter what Mother decides, we are not to leave. I must protect my chick and your

The Vietnam War in the late 1960’s was described as a tragedy, a victory, a win, and a loss, but for whom? The millions of people who loss their lives or the millions of people who fought to save others or is it for the millions of people who had to make that decision every time that they were in battle, but as for Richard Perry, a seventeen-year-old, African American just out of a Harlem High School, had to ask that question solely to himself. Perry, a talented and bright young man put away his dreams of college and becoming a writer because of the unfortunate circumstance he is in. He lives in poverty in the slums of Harlem. His single mother is abandoned by her husband and this leaves Perry and his younger brother Kenny without a father

Edited by Bernard Edelman, “Dear America” is a collection of letters written by soldiers during the Vietnam War. Their letters are written to love ones back home such as parents, siblings, and spouses but they are a great depiction of the Vietnam War. The soldiers would write these letters to help keep hope alive and to keep sane. Throughout the book the letters are categorize into those who are barely arriving into the war to those who have been there a long time. The stress and anxiety grows more and more as the letters continue and the soldiers begin to contemplate their situation. I’ve learned a lot of factual things about the Vietnam War throughout my life such as how it began and what the outcome was but reading this book was the

This shows the effects of the Vietnam War and how it can cause separation between the family not just physically but also mentally.

   Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War is a contrapuntal reading to American literature on the Vietnam War. But rather than stand in stark contrast to Tim O' Brien's The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War is strangely similar, yet different at the same time. From a post-colonialist standpoint, one must take in account both works to get an accurate image of the war. The Sorrow of War is an excellent counterpoint because it is truthful. Tim O' Brien writes: ". . . you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." (O' Brien, 42) Bao Ninh succeeds in this respect. And it was for this reason that the Vietnamese

Much can be interpreted by what people write.  The great thing about interpretations is that different writings can be interpreted differently.  Just like in the writings by Tim O'Brien.  His book titled "The Things They Carried," is a very deep and touching collection of stories about the Vietnam War.  The book is written, as a whole under the title "The Things They Carried," but is a collection of many people’s experiences in this destructive war.  One story that is a touching and very intriguing is titled, "The Man I Killed."  If anyone knows anything about Vietnam it is that many lives where lost in this disastrous war.

The end of the novel best shows us the moral dilemma between right vs. right. When the captain is locked up in the camp is the part of the novel that best shows us the moral dilemma between right vs. right because the narrator began to contemplate about how both communism and capitalism are right in their own ways, and forcing him to choose one over the other is difficult. • Nguyen is able to “de-Americanize the portrayal of the war” by not showing Americans as the heroes of the war. But rather showing them as losers due to the fact that they promised to save South Vietnam from the spread of communism but couldn’t do so. • “Who was the military mastermind who squeezed out Frequent Wind from behind his tightly clenched buttocks?”

It is so difficult for Ha’s family to leave Vietnam for these 3 reasons. First of all in the poem, “Should We?”, Brother Quang says “How can we scramble away like rats without honor and dignity,” (44). It is so hard emotionally for Quang because he is a nationalist and is so proud of his culture that he would be disgusted to leave the country. Secondly, in the poem, “Should We?”, Brother Quang also says that “when everyone must help rebuild the country” (44). This also ties with a lot of Vietnamese people wanting to stay and help because of their nationalist beliefs.