Thomas Lester Pugh : The Oldest Of Two Kids

In the short story, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,” by Tim O’Brien, the author shows that no matter what the circumstances were, the people that were exposed to the Vietnam War were affected greatly. A very young girl named Mary Anne Bell was brought by a boyfriend to the war in Vietnam. When she arrived she was a bubbly young girl, and after a few weeks, she was transformed into a hard, mean killer.

The ESPN documentary called “Carry On” shares the story of Dartanyon Crockett and Leroy Sutton. Dartanyon and Leroy both have inspiring stories with many similarities. They also both had their own unique story to share. Dartanyon and Leroy both had difficult childhoods dealing with their families. Dartanyon Crockett’s mother died of an aneurysm when he was eight. At this time his father slipped under the use of drugs and alcohol and was not a supporting role of Dartanyon’s life. Like Dartanyon, Leroy also struggled with a childhood deprived of parents. Leroy’s mother was also a drug and alcohol abuser. His father was absent throughout Leroy’s youth years because he spent his days in jail. Despite all of these difficulties, they both have disabilities.

As stated in the thesis, Timothy O’Brien also writes his short story, “How to tell a True War Story,” in the first person narrative, although the style in which he narrates is quite different than from the style in “A & P.’’ O’Brien, who was an actual soldier in the Vietnam War takes on more of an autobiographical approach to telling his “true war story.”

The author Wes had and accomplished goals. Specific achievements he’s made include, military school, getting acknowledged for his basketball talent, and receiving the Rhodes Scholarship. It all started when his mom decided to put him in military school. It took time for Wes to accept the military ways. Later the acceptance would cause him to actually “enjoy the school”(130). He’d work his way up from plebe to “paratrooper”(130). Wes was “one of the youngest officers in the entire United States Military”(134). It was a huge, story worthy experience for Wes. His high school sports career was astonishing too, enough for “The New York Times to run a two-page article”(130) about it. Eventually, the publication of his well-doing, “attracted colleges”(130) and gave him a chance to play with “NBA members, like Kobe Bryant”(130).

Tim O'Brien originally struggled to restore the certainty of his safety by attempting to cross the border in order to protect himself from participating in the war,but he chose . An example of his struggles

Jack Walton Taylor, a 64 year old convict in 1989, was short, bald, had a wrinkled forehead and wore glasses. Gravity had set in, and the old man walked with a stoop. Taylor was friendly and yet; hauntingly implausible.

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

Richard Perry was a young seventeen-year-old black boy from Harlem. He did not have the money at go attend college so he decided to join the military. Perry played basketball throughout his life which resulted in a knee injury, but that did not stop him. On the way to Vietnam and at the beginning of his time there, Perry did not expect the events that were about to happen. “We spent another day lying around. It seemed to be what the war was about. Hours of boredom, seconds of terror.” (Myers 132). Perry and the rest of the men in Vietnam were put into hard positions and had to go through tough things. Perry had his friend, his leader, and was put into the hospital twice. Jenkins was the first to die among Perry’s friends. After the death he was hurt, but had to continue of and fight for his country. His lieutenant was the next of his close friends to die. Everyone was devastated about the loss of their lieutenant. The war had barely began, everyone had to still fight their hardest and not leave their guard down for anything. Many questions and prayers were spoken throughout the time in Vietnam. “I really wasn't pissed, because I knew the real

Jaren Taylor Humphreys grew up as the youngest child in a family of four in the state of Illinois. The Humphrey family features James Humphreys who is Jaren’s father and passed away in 2005. His father was a Seventh - day Adventist pastor. Jaren’s mother, Rene Humphreys, who is 52 years of age, is a superintendent in the Lake Region Seventh-day Adventist Conference. Jaren older brother, Austin Humphreys , 25 is a Seventh-day Adventist pastor at Burein Seventh-day Adventist in Atlanta Georgia. Jaren Humphreys the youngest child is 20 years old studying business at Southern Adventist University. The Humphrey is pretty much dispersed, as the mother lives in Chicago, while Austin lives in Atlanta, and Jaren lives in Collegedale Tennessee.

It all began in 1968, when Tim O'brien receive a draft notice. Tim was bound for Harvard and thinks he’s too good for war. He doesn’t really want to go to Vietnam, so he decide to run away to Canada which he knew was wrong. When he got to Canada, he finds an old resort called the Tip Top Lodge. Its owner was Elroy Berdahl who O’brien says saved his life. O’Brien stays there for six days. On the last day, Elroy takes O’brien fishing in the rainy river. Elroy stopped within swimming distance to Minnesota and O’brien was faced with dilemma: jump and swim or stay. He started crying and on the other side, he sees hallucination of his family, and friends. He was too scared to jump, so Elroy steers back to the lodge. He left the next morning, drove back home, and heads to Vietnam.

Harold Krebs is a man who has gone through a life-changing event and has experienced many consequences made by his own choices and decisions. He then has to come to the understanding that he has to try and rebuild his life as he knew it. Things weren’t working out at his family’s house so he decided to move to Kansas City where he would get a job. This war was a hundred years ago and Krebs came back and had no clue what to do with his life when he got back. The

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

At the beginning of the story the narrator, Tim, gets affected by committing an act of violence when he was in the Vietnam War, killing an enemy Vietnamese soldier. Many thoughts began flowing in his head, all the time thinking about the man he killed. “He had been born, maybe, in 1946 in the village of My Khe near the central coastline of

Going through an era when the Vietnam War was a smash hit in your town, many high school senior boys would be drafted out if their number was on the list of people. The men drafted had to leave behind their families and aspirations. Tim O’Brien uses different perspectives in The Things They Carried to show if something tragic happens in life, consequently dealing with it may be hard. Moving on will help in the future.

Proudly, he finished high school at the age of sixteen, but could not follow the footsteps of his older brothers and join the military, because he was too young. Therefore, he decided to continue his studies. The completion of his degree in biology was bittersweet. He was the first and the only one in his family to have graduated from college, however, there were not a lot of opportunities for a young African-American male in 1957, in small town Alabama. After taking few odd jobs, he decided to enlist in the military.