book, and by the end of the book we feel like we know exactly how Perry feels, and we have a understanding of some of the hardships that the soldiers faced in Vietnam. In this book, Perry kills

a Vietnamese man in a hut he was supposed to check out, and from this point on he does a lot of thinking about why he is fighting in the war. From experiences like this Perry changes both

physically and mentally. Also he does a lot of thinking about himself, and he asks himself what kind of person he is. Then Perry looks deep inside and asks himself with "all the dying around me,

all the killing, was making me look at myself again, hoping to find more then the kid I was. Maybe I could sift through the kid's stuff, the basketball, the Harlem streets, and the find the man I would

In the beginning of the book Perry is very different than he is at the end. In the beginningof the book Perry goes into the war a little scared, because he doesn't know what to expect. After

Perry is wounded and sent back to war he becomes horrified by the

scar for life. One example that probably scared Perry for the rest of his life were the sounds he

forced to put his felling aside to survive. I only hope that if I am ever put in the same position and my life is on the line, I can put my feelings a side, and do what I'd have to do to survive.

because he knows they will never be able to understand it unless they were there. I do feel though there is a possibility he might use his writing talent for the better, and maybe write a book telling

emotionally and mentally. He learns that it's all right to feel bad for someone, but not to the point were you can't pull the trigger ,and you end up getting killed. Perry is a very emotional guy, and is

Another thing different about Perry from the beginning of the war and till the end of the war is that in the beginning of the war Perry spends a lot of his time being concerned about the

the war he had never killed anyone or had been around death that much. After the war you know that he will never forget these tragedies, because these are very traumatizing things to see, and they

heard after Brew, and himself had been shot. He saw them trying to help Brew, but then " I heard the zipper. I didn't have to see it. I heard the zipper (208)." This sound,

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