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A 9 page paper which examines several novels/stories and analyzes the characters’ ability to psychologically endure the worst scenarios, and how the characters change due to the psychological pressures. The paper focuses on how Americans and Vietnamese are different as well as similar in these respects. The works examined are Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor of War,” Le Ly Hayslip’s “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace,” Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” and Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim’s “Four Hours in My Lai.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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many immeasurable ways. War is a horrendous reality that psychologically strains individuals in ways that are unfathomable for the most part. While some cultures are more accustomed to warfare, almost
on a daily basis, than others, all people are affected and ultimately change in some manner or form. It could well be argued that the Vietnamese people were far more
accustomed to living in constant warfare of one kind or another, especially in comparison to soldiers from the United States. With these
issues and realities in mind the following paper examines four different works which address the Vietnam War from different perspectives. The paper examines and analyzes the psychological endurance of the
cultures and the changes that war causes within various characters. In analyzing these works the paper illustrates how it seems that the invading force, in the form of American soldiers,
suffered more psychologically as they engaged in, and endured warfare that was relatively common to the Vietnamese people. The works analyzed, first separately and then compared, are Philip Caputos "A
Rumor of War," Le Ly Hayslips "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Womans Journey from War to Peace," Tim OBriens "The Things They Carried," and Michael Bilton and
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply a story about
war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them. More strictly, it is a soldiers account of our longest conflict, the only one we
have ever lost, as well as the record of the long and sometimes painful personal experience" (Caputo, 1996; xiii). In this the reader knows that the story that unfolds will
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