Poem Analysis: Life In Vietnam
“Even as a kid she’d lived in a puzzle world, where surfaces were like masks, where the most ordinary objects seemed fiercely alive with their own sorrows and desires”
“But it didn’t matter. Because in the…to make herself vanish”
“One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page. Finds out she’s hooked up with a war criminal”
John’s mother stated, “I told you how secretive he was-you never knew what was thinking-and it just got worse after his father hung himself”
“In the morning sunlight, which shifted…and bayoneted and blown into scraps”
“He’d tried to pull off a trick that couldn’t be done, which was to remake himself, to vanish what was past and replace it with things good and new”
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But under the surface, lie his darker, almost twisted side, which supports the theme that looks can be deceiving,even in seemingly normal people.
Theme: John’s traumatic experience start when he is only a child, resulting in his backwards social practices and increased secrecy later in life.
Symbol: Sunlight serves an influencer, and it can be used to describe why the troops in Vietnam do awful things, and it is because they are under the sun.
Theme: John’s “perfect” bubble final pops after it grows to big, expanded by his rampant moral corruption which leads to his intense manipulation and secrecy.
Theme: John’s father permanently altered John’s mind at a young age, resulting in a John who deceived himself and others because it was the only way for him to feel like he had a normal life.
Characterization: This quote further develops Johns mental state, and that deep down, under the self-deception and lies, he is what he loathes to be, which is like his father
Symbol: When his secrets are revealed to the public, John feels as if a heavy weight has finally been lifted from his mind and soul, as he no longer has to suppress everything inside of
“But it didn’t matter. Because in the…to make herself vanish”
“One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page. Finds out she’s hooked up with a war criminal”
John’s mother stated, “I told you how secretive he was-you never knew what was thinking-and it just got worse after his father hung himself”
“In the morning sunlight, which shifted…and bayoneted and blown into scraps”
“He’d tried to pull off a trick that couldn’t be done, which was to remake himself, to vanish what was past and replace it with things good and new”
“He wanted to …show more content…
But under the surface, lie his darker, almost twisted side, which supports the theme that looks can be deceiving,even in seemingly normal people.
Theme: John’s traumatic experience start when he is only a child, resulting in his backwards social practices and increased secrecy later in life.
Symbol: Sunlight serves an influencer, and it can be used to describe why the troops in Vietnam do awful things, and it is because they are under the sun.
Theme: John’s “perfect” bubble final pops after it grows to big, expanded by his rampant moral corruption which leads to his intense manipulation and secrecy.
Theme: John’s father permanently altered John’s mind at a young age, resulting in a John who deceived himself and others because it was the only way for him to feel like he had a normal life.
Characterization: This quote further develops Johns mental state, and that deep down, under the self-deception and lies, he is what he loathes to be, which is like his father
Symbol: When his secrets are revealed to the public, John feels as if a heavy weight has finally been lifted from his mind and soul, as he no longer has to suppress everything inside of