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Blog #11 I am reading the novel "the things they carried" By Tim Obrien. This book has turned out really good. I am on page 233. As i said in my first blog i hoped this book would be interesting and it really is. Now you cant really call it a war story as much as a collection of stories of all different parts of the war and a look at the before and after effects of the book. Right now Obrien is explainning about after he got shot in his rear how he had to go to a hospital an dbe treated and all the pain he went through.This wouldent have happened if his medic would have treated him for shock. His medic was just a greenie fresh off the hellicopter so during his first fire fight he froze up and in turn put obrien through alot of pain.

Blog #8 I am reading The novel The things they carried. It is about a few american solders. I am currently on page 25 and it is talking about the daily life of almost every solder in veitnom, repetivte scary harsh hot and loud day in day out. I cant quite figure out who the exact main character in the story is because it is switching from solder to solder. It talks alot about the things solders carry not just physically but emotionaly and mentaly. many solders had to carry a tremdous amount of weight depending on there size. for example henry dobbins was a big man so he carried a machine gun and was also excluded from tunnel duty. Tunnle was when a solder had to investigate a veit kong rat hole that was under the jungles and stuff. there where miles apon miles of tunnles in veitnom. I can connect to this part of the story because i once saw a movie which the name i cant recall were it showed solders going in and out of the tunnles trying to find the enemys.

Blog #7 I am reading the book The Things They carried by Tim Obrien. it is a war story, it has 246 pages and i really hope its interesting. what i have read so far tells me about a few of the solders from the war.

Slaughterhouse 5

Blog #4 Im am Reading the Novel Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I am currently Just passed chapter 6 on page 137. The Main character, Billy, is in his bed desparatly trying to fall asleep because he needs some rest for his daughters wedding the next day. He cant stop but think about the Tralfamadorians’ and how the will most likely capture him and take him away in there big spacecraft thing. He then walks outside to the spacecraft and boards the craft and simply looks at his captors and ask's "Why me?" and they look at him as if theve been asked it a million times and the resond simply as there is no reason. I think this book is still very interesting and i cant wait to finish it but the part about how the time is different from one place to another is a hard concept to grasp.

Blog #3

Blog #2 The Novel i am reading is slaughter house five by Kurt Vonnegut. I am currently on page 89 and the book is still kind of in the intro phase. The main character Billy is explaing how he came to write SH5 and who he talked to and what inspired him. I think that him telling all these stories about his friends from the war will be a key part in the story because they are so numerous and very detailed about what happened how it happened and many other things. Now the writer did say that he changed the names of all the characters name because that just wouldn't be a good idea to do because of people reading the book and then knowing about some of the things that person did.This novel is continuing to interest me every page i read so im still glad i choose this one of the many other good books!

Blog#1

The Novel i am reading is Slaughter house five By Kurt Vonnegut. I am currently on page 59. So far i have learned a brief summary of the characters lives during the war. during the first few pages i was reading and in my mind i kept seeing the characters in like a army transport all with so much on each others mind. The main character Billy Pilgrim, was in the back of the truck and was with a bunch of other marines and they where telling stories of the war and some even showed some souvenirs they had brought back from the war. I think that Billy will tell about going back to Dresden in his later years and telling about what it looks like. I think this novel is very interesting and im glad i picked it.