analogies to my process of thinking. I never served in Vietnam, yet I feel like I

experience the same things in my life. Ron Kovic does a great job in his story. We can

visualize the images he is talking about because he uses very descriptive adjectives.

The images he projects may have a different setting and characters, yet I can still

Appreciation is something everybody needs to learn and set an example with. In

Born on the Fourth of July the narrator has problems understanding how the nurses

could think another persons life was a joke. In the story, the doctors and nurses see so

many patients each day and it is very emotional to them. They have to continue doing

their job, as they have many people to help and to help them get through this they

laugh and make jokes. This helps them not to focus on what is really going on. It

picture of the general handing the Purple Heart to me.” (1064) To me, this is like

when I receive a certificate for honor roll. I work very hard for my grades and not once

the harder you work, the more you should be awarded. As the narrator has worked very

for each dollar that I have to spend and I need to be more appreciative of it. Weather

time controlling my spending. My parents constantly complain about it to me. When I

not very happy because he didn’t really feel as if he had a lot of hope left and really

come across to you at some point in your life and Don Kovic does a great job of

The examples Don Kovic uses in Born on the Fourth of July bring out a lot of

it’s one dollar or one person’s life, we need to be very appreciative of it.

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always there to help me out, this black man is here to help him out. At the time, he

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Approximate Word count = 637
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)