Mary Anne is transformed into a predatory killer because she has never seen anything so adventurous or intense as what she saw in Vietnam. I think that she got a little taste of what it is like to be at war and in the wild for the first time. She got hooked on the adventure and the atmosphere she was. The way she changed is actually very comparable to the book Lord of the Flies because when the boys in the book first got stranded they were having a blast and had a lot of freedom. By the end, they were in a survival mode and their actions were very savage.

I think that it is also important to know that she is a woman. Especially because during this war women were not really involved in the war. As a matter of fact of the roughly 2.1 million American soldiers, only 11,000 were women and only one of those 11,000 ladies died. She also brings a sense of comfort to the men because that was the whole reason she was there in the first place. She came there because Fossie missed her and wanted to see her. She was comforting to the other men because they had not really seen any woman since they left the United States for war. 

I think that one thing that transforms people today is pressure. Whether it be pressure from your parents to do well in school, or from your friends to do something dumb, or from society as a whole making you feel like you have to dress a certain way to keep up with trends. All of these pressures are not good because they change who we are as individuals and often times if we feel pressured we feel like we are doing something wrong and someone else is more correct and they have the right to “control” us.

I definitely think that the reason that this pressure exists is that we want to be the best and most successful that we possibly can be. Everyone is naturally competitive and then there are people who are extra competitive and compare themselves to everyone else because they are more pressured. An example of this is: You don’t like playing basketball but you are on the team anyway and your parents keep pressuring you to be just as good or better than your older br=other who had been on the team a few years ago. This is a very simple example but this shows how simple it is to feel pressured into things you don’t always enjoy.

I think when people feel pressured, they are looking for approval and almost a reward. When something good happens they want to benefit the reward for their success. They want to be the ones to fit in and please their parents even if they don’t enjoy the activity they are doing.

In conclusion, the thing that made Mary Anne change was the adventure and suspense of Vietnam but nowadays the main thing that changes people is outside pressures.