Month: October 2019

Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong

In the beginning of the chapter ¨Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” Mary Anne comes in to visit Mark Fossie. When she firsts arrives you can tell Mary Anne is a beautiful girl with long blonde locks who was very out of her element, but that didn’t stop her from fully diving into the experience full force.

Mary Anne completely transformed herself after only her second week and seeing four casualties she started quickly picking things up and getting her hands bloody she learned to clip an artery, pump up a plastic splint, and shoot in morphine. She soon started wearing no make up, stopped filing her fingernails, and even cut her hair short.

It was very weird for Mary Anne to be their because at this time women weren’t allowed to fight in the war, although I don’t think it matters that Mary Anne is a women I do think certain things will her effect her differently and might even have drastic impacts on her.

I think what transforms people today is what they have been through like when people grow up in abusive homes, poverty, foster care, or even a parent passing. Anything can transform a person and make them act differently. I don’t think we are looking for something, I honestly think the world is always to looking for ways to us  impact and us as people need to figure it out and grow stronger .

 

courage

In the story ‘The Things They carried’ , Tim O’Brien describes courage as being “like an inheritance, and by being frugal and letting it earn interest , we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down.”

I think that Tim believes courage to be something like money almost, he uses words like ‘interest’ and ‘frugal’ to get the point across that courage isn’t something that you can just do. You have to wait for a good moment, it takes a lot for a person to actually be courageous and their is always gonna be opportunities to have courage, but that also gives you many more opportunities to be a coward.

I would define courage as being strong willed because it takes a lot to have courage. I once heard someone compare courage to a diamond, he said   “Courage is like the diamond very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies, useless.”