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A 4 page paper which examines how young people’s identity was strongly developed, according to gender, through war and the media in the 50s and 60s. The paper argues that men were strongly influenced and directed through the War in Vietnam and women through the media. The paper utilizes Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Susan J. Douglas’ Where the Girls Are. No additional sources cited.
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men and women, boys and girls, are clearly also influenced by different things as they seek their identity. In developing years, the young adult years, men and women are struggling
with their gender identity along with their basic identity. In society many factors come into play in pushing that identity in various ways. Back in the 50s and the 60s
this was perhaps very much more the case than it is today for men and women had very different roles in comparison to modern realities. The following paper examines these
factors that helped shape gender identity, and identity in general, as it applies to men seen in Tim OBriens The Things They Carried (which deals with forces of the Vietnam
War) and women as seen in Susan J. Douglas Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female and the Mass Media. The essay argues that young men were greatly influenced, positively
and negatively, through the Vietnam War and Women through the Media. Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and the 60s In OBriens work the reader sees that each
of these young men came to the war with different identities, different ideals, and different expectations. They were young men who were convinced to join the war, or who went
to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and all of them "carried" things that helped
them remain connected to their identity which was often very vague, if all but invisible, during the war. Towards the beginning the narrator indicates how he ended up in
the war and what he thought at that time: "I was drafted to fight a war I hated....Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. I saw no unity of
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