Coleman,+Brandon


 * Entry Seven:** I decided to read the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. This book interested me because i like history and I wanted to learn more about World War one and how it was to be a German during this time.


 * Podcast--The Things They Carried**

In chapter 17 it talked about the morning after Kiowa’s death, the platoon walks in the mud of the sewage field with Jimmy Cross leading the way. Cross thinks of Kiowa and the crime that is his death. a Vietnamese girl that is fourteen years old dances through the wreckage. Though most of her village has burned to the ground and her family has been burned to death by the American soldiers, The men of the platoon cannot understand why she is dancing.
 * Entry Five:** I have read to chapter 18. In chapter 15 it talks about how Norman Bowker returns to Iowa. On the Fourth of July, as he drives his father’s big Chevrolet around the lake, he realizes that he has nowhere to go, which i thought it was cool how it refranced to Iowa in the story. In chapter 16 O’Brien says that in right before Saigon finally collapsed, he received a seventeen-page, letter from Bowker saying that he couldn’t find a meaningful use for his life after the war. He worked several jobs that he worked at for a short time and lived with his parents. Also enrolled in junior college, but he eventually dropped out.
 * Entry Four:** I have read to chapter 14. In the chapter "stockings" it talks about how there are alot of **s**uperstitions in Vietnam, and an example of the supersitions are the pantyhose that Dobbins’s uses for a good luck charm. With the pantyhose around his neck, Dobbins survives tripping over a land mine, and a week later he survives a firefight. In the chapter “The Man I Killed” begins with a list of physical damage and possible characteristics of the man that O’Brien killed with a grenade in My Khe. Here is a summery of what happened in the chapter "Style"
 * Entry Three:** I have read to page 88 (Chapter 9), Most of the Chapter "On the Rainy River" is about how hard it is for some war vets to tell there storys and how much it herts them to remember thoughs events. In the next Chapter the book talked about how soilders, when under stress can create tension for example two squad members were fighting over a missing jack knife, which normaly wouldnt be a big enough deal to be fist fighting over. Its also funny how it can also strengthen there "brotherhood." for example the same guys that were fighting in the last chapter became best friends in the next chapter.

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 * Entry Two:** I have read to page 39 (Chapter 4), The Chapters Love, and Spin. The chapter love was about the old love that had during there tour and how they remembered them. The other chapter Spin had alot to do with how burtal the war was witch there were some example Sanders was picking lice off his body and Azar Gave a chcolate bar to a kid with a plastic leg.


 * Entry One:** I'am reading the novel "The Things They Carried", by Tim O'Brien. I have read to page 27 (chapter 2), so far most of the story I have read is manly character devlopement and how the author came up with the title. So far I like the book it really show's how there are many different kinds of diversity. I feel the as the story go's on that it will show him after the war and how his life is when he returns.