The main character for the novel is Richie Perry; a young man from Harlem not giving much thought to his enlistment in the army. All along the battle fields the soldiers can feel a sense of death, from those dead around them and from wi

The most heart-felt image expressed by the novel I feel was revealed a little later. A child rigged to bombs blows up in a soldiers arms, devastating the minds of those who saw it, although they tried to hide their discomfort. Events like this also shape the behavior of the soldiers on the battle field. Overtime soldiers lose their sensitivity to the death around them until they're concerned with only staying alive with no care for the lives of others. The war becomes a survival struggle in which their main objective is to stay alive and kill the enemy trying to do the same.

The war world is totally unlike the world the soldiers all left behind. All through out the novel various characters speak of "getting back to the world." The world in Vietnam during the war is one without moral standards. The death and chaos of it all can drive the men to insanity. A few times in the book people were shocked to what was happening

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Approximate Word count = 628
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)