Paul has come to admire Cacciato, despite Paul's own decision to risk life and limb to fight the war, and despite the fact that Paul came to Vietnam with a very different perspective on heroism. When he was a child, Paul had a very militaristic relationship with his own father that reinforced conventional notions of courage. He had fond childhood memories of playing Little Bear and Big Bear in Indian Guides with his father. But now, Paul sees Cacciato's flight as "a truly awesome notion," rather than the act of a coward as he, as the innocent 'Little Bear' might have before.
Ultimately, Paul sees Cacciato's...
1). The character in the novel/author 'Tim' never believed in the cause of the Vietnam War, and nearly fled to Canada to avoid serving. That decision to servie affected him in an unalterable fashion, and O'Brien's recounts the story of Vietnam to himself, in both truthful and fanciful ways, to make sense of his experience. Yet every re-telling removes him farther and farther away from the realities of the experience,
At the same time, the style is expected to give the reader an idea of what is happening, and that too in a more refined version. In his language there are poetic references for the brutality and masculinity of war as feminine features. He has talked about the "star shaped hole" and this reminds most about the American flag as also the expectation of the country to kill and
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