Week 2's prompts are:
- Respond to A&P by John Updike, pg 376
- Respond to The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, pg 99
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2 comments:
Well for staters I was uninterested on Sammie and his perversions, but his willingness to defend 3 young ladies that he does not know was impressive. I was also even less impressed with the short film that we watched in class. It was almost like running your nails down a chalk board, EEKK!... After disscussing it in class though I really got an opportnity to meet Sammie in the classrooms eyes. I must say though that I really kind of felt sorry for the kid!
The thing I carry from "The Things They Carry" is grief, frustration, hate,ignorance and hope. This story told many tales of different soldiers, but one of them stood out. Lieutenant cross was unprepared and ignorant to what was going on around him. Also he kind of scared me whe he was talking about Martha, but one specific way he had stated his feelings about her almost seemed psychotic it went like this "Kneeling, watching the hole, he tried to concentrate on Lee Strunk and the war, all the dangers, but his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered". When I had originally read this I immediately thought what kind of psycho was he, and was Martha a friend or someone he was stalking? This was a story I rather enjoyed reading though, it was very descriptive as far as explaining what these soldiers were and today are going through. Having been in the service for four years I feel quite lucky to not had been shipped over seas. I was always stationed in the states. I couldn't imagine what kind of tramatic stress these men go through, post traumatic as well. Lieutenant cross unfortunately had to learn his place of responsibility to these men the hard way by losing a fellow comrad, but maybe that is what he needed to see the light and grow up.
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