Monday, January 25, 2010

Exploration 4 Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong

I really liked this chapter for many reasons. One of them would be that it really shows how being in a place of violence and brutallity would influence the personal, characteristics or traits of an individual. It talks about how Mark Fossie got his girlfriend to come to Vietnam to visit him. She starts of as this really sweet, bubbly young lady named Mary Anne Bell. She was very young and kind hearted until the war changed her. I think that this book makes me feel a lot of emotions due to the tragic loss that is occuring through out the book. Many people die in the book, but the reason why it is so hard to get over the death of someone very close to you is when you know it could have been preveneted. I think people grief more when the person dies in a preventable situation rather than natural causes or when you know that it's coming.

5 comments:

Jill said...

I liked this chapter also, i liked how it showed how much someone can change in certain situations.

Tyler Stauch said...

I agree with you how this book has lots of emotion on tragic loss. I dont think this book has a lot of positive connotaions.

Kelsey Tiberi said...

It is hard to be the same person after a tragic evet like the Vietnam war. It's hard with any kind of emotional situation. I agree with statements and think you did a nice job of shareing them.

Seth said...

I agree that being in such a place like Vietnam could completely change someone, at the beginning Mary Anne seemed innocent and then at the end she started acting very differently especially when she got involved with the ambushes.

Jessica said...

It would take strong people to deal with the kind of situations they themselves had to deal with i think this book did show alot more traggic things than good, well written.