Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong A soldier jokes about the camp being safe enough to bring a girl there, and another soldier likes that idea, going off to write to his girlfriend to come. Six weeks later, Mary Anne Bell comes to the camp and it seems her stay there goes on quite well until the end. She even quits her fussy feminine habits and cuts her hair short, after learning how to repair arteries and shoot morphine. After awhile the young medic tells her to start thinking about going home, but Mary Anne doesn’t want to leave just yet and says she is fine. The two get engaged and the medic makes arrangements for her to go home. Mary Anne doesn’t like that and disappears, only to return three weeks later. When she comes back, she is quite a whole new person. Mary Anne Bell fully embraces the Vietnamese culture, while the medic totally ignored it. Being around the war prompts her to change her life path and gets her hungrier for adventure.
On The Rainy River
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With uncertain causes and effects, the war seem to wrong him and makes him think he is too good for the war. Like many Americans there was a lot of stuff he didn’t know about that was going on in the war. While in college, he was even against the war. He even thinks about fleeing to Canada by following the river, only to cry when sending the Canadian border right in front of him. He tells himself that he is going to run to Canada but silently concludes that he will go off to war. The next day he washes the breakfast dishes, leaves money for the man he was staying with and drives back home. He then goes off to war. This chapter shows the shame and guilty feelings that one can get from war, like how O’Brien is ashamed to go against his own principles for the