Rainy River is one of the most iconic chapters. Tim writes about when he was 21 years old in 1968. The time when he got the letter that he would be drafted to join the Vietnam War, a war he didn't believe was worth fighting. One day he decides to escape to Canada which was the only option that included not to go to war. On his escape to Canada, Tim stops in a cabin next to the border. The reason why I can connect with Tim O'Brien in this chapter is because I know how tough making choices is, specially for a person like me who takes a lot of time to make any decisions. Of course, I have never been in a choice as hard as the one he went through, but I have been in rough situations when you need to make a hard choice. If I had to choose I would probably choose to go into the army for a few reasons. First reason it would make my family look bad like they do not know how to properly raise a son. The second reason would be it would hurt my pride for this country. Its not the countries fault that some man chose my birthday out of 365 other days. I am proud of my country and what it is capable of. Even though the whole war was just fight some poor farmer that didn't want to be bothered with. 

The Things They Carried

       

The main character of the story is Jimmy Cross. Cross is from a college in New Jersey, Cross is also the leader of his platoon. So far he is not doing such a good job at it though, one of his men are already dead Ted Lavender. At first he is distracted if Martha is a virgin or not then when he is sitting at his fox hole it hits him and he starts to cry. From then on he will try to prevent any deaths in his platoon any way possible. in this story you can already see the different kinds of people that are in war. This way is characterized by the way they view life and it reflects them in what they carry. For example Jimmy carriers on two pictures of Martha and a couple letter that she sent him, while others carry drugs to not be so nervous in the combat zone, or a bible because they believe that god will get them through this war. Then of course they have their weapons like m16 and their food rations. This then began to make me think of what I would carry out onto the battlefield if I were in their shoes. I thought would I know what to bring right of the bat or would it change over the course of me being in combat. I gave it a lot of thought and what I came up with was that I would bring an mp3 player. For me music helps in any situation. If I needs to sleep; listen to music, if I need to focus; music, if I need to calm down; music. Basically I couldn’t live without it so that’s why I would bring it.

 Louie Zamperini decided to join the air force. Flash forward he and his crew, including pilot "Phil" Phillips, have a harrowing air battle in their plane, the Super Man. But Phil's pilot skills and Louie's ingenuity enables them to land the plane, even though it's riddled with over five hundred bullet holes.

With the Super Man succumbed to its kryptonite, the men are transferred to the Green Hornet—a less-reliable plane, the Hornet is shot down over the Pacific. Only three men survive: Louie, Phil, and Mac. Phil wrestles with his guilt about crashing, Mac kind of goes nuts, and Louie wrestles a shark from the ocean with his bare hands and eats its liver. Unfortunately, Mac dies at sea. What I predict might happen now is that they are going to stay out at sea for a very long time to the point where everyone else dies except Louie and he is going to the wash ashore on the enemies land. At first he will not know where he is and he will wonder around and when he finds the Japanese or German people he will try to find someone to hide but no matter how hard he looks no one will help him. They will eventually report him to the police or military. He will then get captured by the enemy and get either shot or sent to a camp. If he is sent to a camp he will try to escape multiple times and will wind up saving someone else. He will befriend some people in the story that reflect him and how he wanted things to happen. He will try to save them by standing up for what they did and taking the bullet for what they did. This will be how the story comes to an end he will winded up having all his guilt cleared once he stands up for that one person and it will make it honorable for him to die.

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Louie survives the the ocean and winds up getting captured thrown into to a pow camp the bird is a serious guard who is cruel to louie and others for example the bird punches Louie 200 times and makes him clean a pigsty with his bare hands. He survives the war and returns back home and marrys his love at first sight Cynthia. They have a daughter and then Louie developed a drinking problem. Louie is haunted by the horrors of war and alcohol helps him with his situation. The problems he then face are failure to find a career and to exact revenge on the bird. Everything changes when his wife discovers him trying to shake their new baby.

The problem in the story was the main character Louie has to go to war and fight the Japanese’s. While he was on an fight mission he got shot down. That is problem one. Problems two is that the Japanese and have to get sent to a camp capture him. The third problem is that once the war is over he cannot forget what happen and what he had to do in the war. What friends he lost and the hardships he endured from that hatred the developed strong negative feeling for the bird. The bird is a Japanese pow office that is a very inhuman one. The theme of this story is a very straightforward one but at the same time it is not one to taken lightly. The theme of the story I learn to forgive. The main the theme very prevalent once Louie came back from the war and started drinking and developing a strong hatred towards the Bird and when he was dedicated on killing him that’s when I figure out that forgiving was the main theme. The way to resolve the hatred to someone and put you life at peace is to forgive them. No matter what they did. That is how you move on with your life. Louie was in shamble when he came back from the war it was only when he learned to forgive is when he stopped drinking and he found a career and learn that there is more to living than just revenge.