Comparing Green Beret and Pig tail.

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Green Beret.

I think that war is a cruel and inhumane way to get justice. People risking their lives just to get land and pride are senseless. These poems are about the Vietnam War that took many people’s lives in the early 70’s. The poems contain descriptive writing about what the soldiers in the Vietnam War had gone through and the troubles that they had faced.

     As I have read Green Beret, I have found out that this poem is both tense and dramatic.

Some of the words the author uses reflect her personality even though the author was unidentified. The only facts to present date that we now about the author are that it are a woman and she was Vietnamese. In these next few paragraphs I will be studying each stanza, looking at the language and finally comparing the two poems.

                       Stanza 1:

At the start of this stanza it says that he is twelve years old and I don’t know his name. The mercenaries took him and his father, whose name I do not know. This tells me that the person who is speaking, most likely the poet, does not know who the boy or father is.

It also quotes as I have said that the mercenaries took him and his father. This tells me that the mercenaries wanted the boy and father for something important or the boy and father might have done something to get them in to trouble with the army. This gets you thinking about the poem and makes you want to read on. This is a great opening line to the poem. It then starts off the sentence saying, “One, morning upon the High Plateau”, this makes it feel like it’s going to start off happy and pleasant and then the mercenaries say that a good fright will make him talk. This tells us that the boy has been sitting there not saying word maybe frightened or maybe brave. Then the poem goes on to the point where the mercenaries start to threaten the boy by saying, "Right kid tell us where they are, tell us where or your father - dead." After this, the poem describes that the boy’s eyes filled with terror. Despite this the boy still said nothing making me think that he is real brave or perhaps did not understand the English of the American soldiers.

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   "Ok boy ten seconds to tell us where they are" In the last instant the silver hand shattered the sky and the forest of trees. Kill the old guy roared Green Beret and shots hammered out. This section out of the poem tells the readers that they go on to threaten him more until the point where they finally kill his father. You can almost feel what the boy felt as he saw his own father being shot behind the forests green wall.
Soldiers stood in silence, and the boy cried out. This almost feels like the world has stopped ...

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