The Story Of Sweetheart Of The Song Of Tra Bong: The Use Of Setting

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lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if
she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates.
" 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home,
how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon
the listener. He is shaping how the story is seen. The reader sees "triple-
canopied jungle, mountains unfolding into higher mountains, ravines and gorges
and fast-moving rivers and waterfalls and exotic butterflies and steep cliffs
and smoky little hamlets and great valleys of bamboo and elephant grass." (103)
The actual reality of the situation is added by the narrator, as extrapolated
from Rat: that they were in an almost completely indefensible situation. Had
somebody cared enough to take control of the little base, there would be no
resistance. Rat wanted to let the reader know his opinion on the citizens of
the Viet Cong, how he wants the listener to think of ...

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Everybody comes in without a clue. They get their
view on the future and humanity raped away by the deflowering of reality in the
jungle. They begin to understand what matters and what doesn't. On it's
superficial level, Song Tra Bong is about a story. This story takes place
within a character. Rat "had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the
flow, inserting little clarifications or bits of analysis and personal opinion."
(116) Rat molded the view of the story. He shows the reader what Rat deems
important, and he constantly adds his own twist to it all. As he said, he loved
her. He is going to put her on a pedestal for the world to view and appreciate.
On the top, ...

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