I Almost Forgot!

So I totally meant to talk about Mary Anne and her insanity. She's a good example of what the war can do to someone. She arrived in Vietnam as a naive seventeen-year-old whose boyfriend was a soldier. After a while, she started to learn about the war, and she liked it. She got sucked into it to the point that her boyfriend found her with the "Greenies" after a night raid, and "At the girl's neck was a necklace of human tongues" (105). This story was meant to show that the war can take an unlikely person and turn them into a battle-hungry warrior. Mary Anne and Mark never expected her to turn into that person when he arranged for her to live in Vietnam. Crazy things happen in unpredictable situations.