Taken Over by Way
Dispatches, written by Michael Herr portrays a vivid and mortal vision of the Vietnam War that he experiences while serving there as a war correspondent. He brings the reader through a tour of his duty in Vietnam conveying pain, humor and also compassion. Herr introduces different aspects of the brutal war experience and the human reality during wartime. It is hard to cope during such a fast paced time of unexpected events, and Herr makes an attempt to tell about how many men did cope until many of them died. The men fighting the war put their lives, hearts and everything that ever meant anything to them on the line for their country.
To start, one quote by Herr that I particularly liked was “Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you’ve never heard it” (p.20). I liked this quote because as a person in his situation, it seems like......
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