Kat 's Life Dramatic Changes

In the book, Kisses from Katie, Katie Davis describes her remarkable journey through following God’s call for her life. During her senior year of high school, Katie traveled to Uganda as a part of a three-week mission trip. It was during that trip that she felt the initial tug of God directing the call for her life. She instantly fell in love with the country and could’t wait for the next chance she had to return. So when she was just 19 years old, Katie uprooted herself from her life in small-town Tennessee to move to Uganda full-time. As a promise she made to her parents, she was only supposed to live there for one year.

"You just don 't know," she said. "You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don 't know what it 's all about. Sometimes I want to eat this place. Vietnam. I want to swallow the whole country—the dirt, the death—I just want to eat it and have it there inside me. That 's how I feel. It 's like . . . this appetite. I get scared sometimes—lots of times—but it 's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I 'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it 's like I 'm full of electricity and I 'm glowing in the dark—I 'm on fire almost—I 'm burning away into nothing—but it doesn 't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can 't feel like that anywhere else."” (O’ Brien 80-81). Tim O’ Brien shows how being in contact with the war can change a person so pure and innocent to a person who isn’t in connection with themselves and is forever trapped inside their own mind. Also it shows how the people who can’t handle the rough environment of war can have a terrible reaction and loose themselves. He also shows how the war changes you mentally making it hard for you to tell if the is the real you or just a persona you took when you couldn’t handle it anymore and needed to mask your broken soul.

made a very wise decision to flee, not taking responsibility for her actions but saved her

From the moment Mary Anne arrives at the base, the other soldiers know that this was a mistake. But Mark Fossie, blinded by love, doesn’t realize this. He believes that Mary Anne’s innocence could be preserved. But oh how he was wrong. In perhaps the greatest mistake in the entire Vietnam war, a soldier brought his girlfriend to Vietnam. Quickly her innocence disappears, and she turns into something wicked. She wears a necklace of human tongues and begins to take risks not even Ethan Hunt would. She behaves dangerously; she refuses to carry a weapon. This wickedness fundamentally changes Mary Anne’s personality and her attitude toward life. While she feels that she is finding herself, she is instead losing herself. May Anne loses herself to the jungle and the war. Like a hyperbole of the entire Vietnam era, Mary Anne loses her purpose. Around this time, some might say so did the American Dream. Contributing to the entropy of the American Dream, soldiers felt lost, confused, and in a metaphorical fog. Soldiers stopped thinking of the war as just good and bad, and instead as one of lesser

concern for her and hoped she appreciated how quick he rushed to her aid. The cut she

of growing up, and the affects war has on her life and love. As it is

On her short home visit she was able to see the different between her formal life and her new life. She was struggling to pay rent because her jobs didn’t pay her enough. In previous life she was only concern about writing and she did have to worry about rent money or finding a job.

she was crying but she seemed to feel overwhelmed with her life. Her husband had come home

felt is like that of many women there. She was a hero for going through that and doing the

Well, when katheryn was attending Stephen Decatur middle school it was the first time that she really raised that the school setting was really different from where she had lived before the people , the place and the overall setting of the new place was different . In the 6th and 7th grade katheryn really didn't click with the other kids as well because of how she acted differently and said words in a different way . but with all, she was able to make a few friends along the way. And around those years katheryn had just received her first dog ever that she named Adam it was the first time that she had ever had to take care of something all on her own . Adam and katheryn became very close , wherever katheryn went Adam followed. When katheryn entered her 8th-grade years she started to become very scared and nervous for what is the come in later years when high school was coming she started worrying about if she was going to stay friends with the ones she has now or if things were going to change for her . Nere the end you winter her grandfather came down to see her and her family he lived with them for about four months and spend that time katheryn was so happy to have him there he just made thing easier for katheryn and

Mary Anne’s sudden changes in demeanor, presence, and her rigor to learn about the war are highly characteristic of the effects of war. She manages to stay happy and curious about the world, but through her exposure to primal culture she’s become harder, more in tune with her primitive side. The last time Mary Anne is seen, she is found in a hootch surrounded by dead animals and villagers, wearing “a necklace of human tongues” (110). She goes on to explain her attachment to the war and its macabre attributes and explains that in Vietnam she knows “exactly who she is. You can’t feel like that anywhere else” (111). Throughout the chapter, we see the sweetheart of the medics become the sweetheart of the war itself. Vietnam changes her, only leaving behind the dedication of the high school girl Rat Kiley first spoke of.

After traveling over an ocean to be back with her high school sweetheart and Vietnam soldier, Mark Fossie, Mary Anne begins to change. Mary Anne’s metamorphosis represents the inner turmoil every Vietnam soldier experienced and relays the story in a way that is comprehensible to civilians and soldiers alike. Before Mary Anne even steps of the helicopter,

Kyla Sampsel is a sergeant in the Indiana National Guard. She was deployed to Afghanistan and had to leave behind her son. The sacrifices sergeants like her make are often unappreciated. Kyla not only left behind her son, but she also put her own life at risk. She lost her job after she came home from Afghanistan. Fortunately, she has been able to take care of herself and her son because her family members and friends have been helping her.

So now, she is ready to live life the way she wanted to in the first place. Unlike other wives who were still crying, she knew life must go on so she was over the fact that her husband was dead. For her it was better, he is dead because she was going on about being free, free, free.

Kat has made herself into a lie to everyone around her and herself. During the crisis of when she was being fired just after her operation to remove the cyst Kat discovers her real self in the hairball. She resolves the contradiction of her life by giving the hairball to Gerald.