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A 5 page essay that examines Michael Herr's critical acclaimed account of his experiences as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War entitled Dispatches. The writer discusses Herr's style, technique and structure in accomplishing his thematic goal of describing the war from the ordinary soldier's point of view. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This text is made up of a collection of articles that Herr published in a variety of American magazines between 1968 and 1970 (Gordon, 2000). In a graphic, no-holds-barred, straight-forward
journalistic manner, Herr takes his readers into the heart of Vietnam and what it was like for the American men who fought the most futile war in American history.
The student researching this topic should realize that a great many themes are listed in this assignment. The student might consider concentrating on one or two of these themes when
writing his or her own paper from this research. Western writers have long traveled and looked at the rest of the world with a high biased perspective. In the
nineteenth century, even writers such as Mary Seacole, who had an ethnic heritage, had to tailor their writing to reflect the standard imperialistic prejudices of that era (McKenna, 1997). Seacole
had to substantiate prejudicial views in order to write for a colonialist readership (McKenna, 1997). In the twentieth century, the view of Western societies toward the third world
has often been mitigated by war. While Herrs Dispatches relates the views of a Westerner toward the third world country of Vietnam, his text is within the context of war,
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is more concerned with the reality of war for
himself and the American soldiers that he observes, than he is for the Vietnam people who frequently represented an unseen enemy. The title for this book, Dispatches, refers to
a term used in wartime journalism, that is, that the reporter sends "dispatches" from the front describing the action. Rather than tailor his "dispatches" to fit the expectations of his
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