Vietnam War Short Stories

The Vietnam War is the first war in television broadcast history nationwide. With the increasing popularity of TV ownership and the introduction of night news programs such as CBS and NBC, the fear of war has found a place in the living room nationwide. Between 1965 and 1975, 9 million people served in the Vietnam War, of which 9,500 of them were died of missing or missing ("Vietnam War Statistics"). Of the 58,156 soldiers killed, 11,465 people were under the age of 20 ("Vietnam War Statistics").

Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Wall War" took place in the midst of the merger of the United States and the Vietnam War from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. The Vietnam War era was a very unsettling time that had little effect on all those who lived in the United States then. This war is to stop and resist Vietnamese communism. They do not have enough volunteers to construct an effective army. That is why they started draft service in the war. When someone is elected, they have no choice but to participate in the war.

Story Background One of the characters in the story of the Vietnam War story is a veteran of the Vietnam War. The US military fought in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. Approximately 58,000 Americans died there and over 300,000 were injured. In commemoration of the men and women who served in the war in 1982, the Vietnam War memorial memorial monument was announced in Washington, DC. The name of the deceased is carved on the wall of a black granite. • Patterns and behavior of their thoughts, speech, and speech • Explanations of narrator - thoughts, speech, and behaviors of other characters In many cases, what the character says or does will affect what takes place in the story . When reading, the way the character's motives and roles are expressed or acted in some way will affect the story event

The author and the Vietnam war veteran Tim O'Brien pointed out that there is a gap that is almost inevitable between the experiences of war and the related attempts in the short story "How to read the story of real war" It is. "It is difficult to distinguish what happened and what happened in any war stories, especially real stories, as it is what happened to you, so you have to tell this way." The central event of the story happened when a troop unit of the narrator stepped on the captured projectile. The incident was interrupted and the story was announced that the characters were hard to understand for themselves and the narrator. The war stories are more than retrospective phenomena, as O'Brien's narrator knows his memory and his friends' memory, their initial experience and absence later. The story of war also helps explain how people fall into war and what they are doing there