The Best Quote I Found in Chapter 4 "French Lessons"

" When the bombs fall, I curl up like a trembling child and I pray that death will be painless. No, Jesse, life is a valuable thing. I know that I will soon be losing mine." Grief suddenly began to cloud Hong's large eyes. "I will never see Marseille again. Even now my dear wife Hoa is waiting it out, then go home." " (Vea, 83) Here life is valuable but we will take death with honor knowing that we will never see our belove ones never again. This is sinificant because we have honor as soldiers and have pride for our nation.





1. Would you ever take french lessons?
2. pretending you were a wife would you let your husband go to war? If not what you would do to stop it,
if yes why so.

The Best quote I found in Chapter 3 "The Male Recumbent"

" Life is not a war."(Vea, 63) Jesse is revealing Vietnam  memories to the court as did Bernard. The people say that this is not Vietnam. Even though this is a very short quote I really enjoyed reading the book deep in detail but this was so important.
It is important because its contradiction to it. Life is a war. We are alive because we fight for survival by working for money to get what we want. If we don't get it we die or starve and then die. When we encountered people who harm us we fight in a war against the enemy to survive and escape to freedom.

Its true that the war will always be hard and unfair but sometimes neccesary.




1. If you were in a position of going to war because you were drafted would you escape or would go? Tip The war is Vietnam.
2. After seeing "Platoon" and reading "the things they carry" by Tim Obrien or none of all would you kill an enemy that was walking with a gun but didn't noticed you or just let him go and let someone else do it for you because you didn't had a gun but a simple knive.Tip Have you ever fought a fight where you had to fight for your life? Would be the loser or winner?

The best Qoute I found Interesting in Chapter 2

"Irony is delicious and distasteful, soft and savage. Irony is not to be trifled with its very essence was that it could never be predicted." (vea,30)

This is significant because it reveals what irony is meant to be in this particular novel. The irony is presented in the jury. Every one in the jury acted in irony. Can this be in the real world?

1. Why do you think people use irony? For what purpose does it require. Is it good or bad when is revealed?
2.If you were being judge in court for a crime that you didn't commit and that there was sure they will convict you no matter what, would you escape to freedom fighting the authories or just give up and go to jail. Provide real life experience to suppor your answer.
This is for my group members only