War Novel Response #2

The plot begins to bloom as the relationship between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley takes its form. After being terribly wounded, Frederic takes his leave and spends his days with Catherine as she nurses him back to health. As time goes by, their relationship strengthens, even more so after the announcement that Catherine is pregnant with Frederic’s child. At the same time, war is advancing and so is Henry’s health. Needed on the frontline, Henry leaves Catherine behind as he goes off to continue his duties. Being gone for so long, Henry is unaware of the Austrian army advancing on the Italians, forcing the army and Frederic to retreat. Although retreating is not as simple as it is made out to be, along the way, there are multiple bumps in the road that try to throw Frederic and his regime off track. Eventually, Frederic is left without his regime, and most importantly, without Catherine. 

1. “ ‘ It has been a terrible summer,’ said the priest. He was surer of himself now than when I had gone away. ‘You cannot believe how it has been. Except that you have been there and you know how it can be. Many people have realized the war this summer. Officers whom I thought could never realize it realize it now.’ ‘What will happen?’ I stroked the blanket with my hand. ‘I do not know but I do not think it can go on much longer.’... ‘I don’t believe both sides will stop fighting at once.’ ‘I suppose not. It is too much to expect. But when I see the changes in men I do not think it can go on.’ " (Hemingway 155-156) --------- Plot, perspective, and understatement. 

This quote helps enhance the plot by adding the perspective point that many people have come to the realization that there is not much to fight for anymore. It also is understating the fact that there is a visible change in men that could possibly be a ramification of being at war. Along with this is the argument as to whether or not the fighting will continue due to these realizations. 

     2. “I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it… Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene…” (Hemingway 161) ------- Perspective, paradox, imagery.

This quote is able to dive deeper into the perspective of the main character Frederic by creating a paradox between the descriptive words of war beforehand, and how they have a different/ no meaning to them in the reality of war. Words such as “sacred, glorious, and sacrifice” are all used in a positive denotation to promote war, however, in reality, these words are nothing but false hope masked by proclamations. 

      3. “Catherine was in bed now between two sheets, over her and under her. Which side did she sleep on? Maybe she wasn’t asleep. Maybe she was lying thinking about me…Look at it. Christ, that my love were in my arms and I in my bed again… ‘Good-night, Catherine,’ I said out loud. ‘I hope you sleep well. If it’s too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side,’ I said. ‘I’ll get you some cold water. In a little while it will be morning and then it won’t be so bad. I’m sorry he makes you so uncomfortable. Try and go to sleep, sweet.’ “ (Hemingway 171-172) ------- Imagery, perspective, character. 

      4. “I looked at the carabinieri. They were looking at the newcomers. The others were looking at the colonel. I ducked down, pushed between two men, and ran for the river, my head down. I tripped at the edge and went in with a splash. The water was very cold and I stayed under as long as I could. I could feel the current swirl me and I stayed under until I thought I could never come up. The minute I came up I took a breath and went down again…. The shore was out of sight now.” (Hemingway 194) -------Plot, perspective, imagery, character. 

War is a facade. War is made to seem like a positive thing, something that would ignite people to rise to the occasion, but in reality, war is not as glorious as it is made out to be. Years worth of death and destruction can kill one’s conscience, making them realize that they are fighting for something that isn’t even tangible

This part of the book Kate has been on guard duty for 2 weeks and she says her days feel the same and boring. PG 125 “I could hear the need in his voice , the need to know I was all right” . I saw juxtaposition,character because the 2 characters are going through the same things at the moment and have been experiencing the same things . Also there was character because they were both characters in the chapter at the time , the actions were there and the feelings of needing to know if you and your friend are safe and putting others above yourself.

PG127 “Those burning eyes of his won’t leave me alone” i see imagery,pov,hyperbole. The imagery is there because you can just picture the beating eyes of someone looking at you till the point you feel there burning. Pov is in this text because of the way you see someone else, that's the way she sees them is with her mind and her point of view.  I also feel as though hyperbole is in here as well because it seems like it would be a figure of speech and it doesn't seem that possible but it could be true. PG 134 “Yeah. i know exactly who everybody is now” i see pov,understatement,paradox,character . I see pov because she's trying to share her own state of mind and the way she feels so that's her putting it in her way .Understatement is there because I feel like there is so much more behind this statement.  I feel like it’ll keep going on and on until it gets to the point where there's. a breakage. I'm seeing some paradox in this as well. It seems like she knows what she's saying and is very confident but it could also be a downfall and not be true.

Also some character action showing because it is the character getting into some action which i guess could also be plot.

PG138 “Kate be real these chicks built like a wall” all i see in this one is metaphor and pov , because this is something you say and compare 2 different things to and its kinda a joke type of thing.and pov is the way the character is seeing it .

In this section of “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” there is a range of things going on. First bravo meets the stadium owner of the Dallas Cowboys (Norm), who is a rich man. Secondly, all of bravo is being honored at the game by Norm. But, during them being honored Billy spots one cheerleader that he finds very attractive. He meets her and they hit it off and this is where he realizes that he is not ready to go back to war and that he doesn’t want to. Also, they are still trying to organize the movie and get funding for it.

“The ache forms a kind of auro or envelope around his head, with localized boreholes of quite specific pain, as if a nail gun is firing spikes into his skull.” (Fountain 127) Hyperbole

“As he catches each cheerleader’s eye she breaks down into pyrotecnhic smiles-it’s like flipping on a row of klieg lights, bam bam bam bam.” (Fountain 131) Repetition, Simile and onomonopoeita.

“But somewhere down the line his gaze stops, backtracks of its own accord to a petite, fair-skinned girl with a teased out- corona of strawberry-blond hair, soft bolts of which drape the rising tide of her chest.” (Fountain 131-132) Imagery and plot 

This quote shows emphasis on how Billy sees this woman. He didn’t just see her as “one of the cheerleaders” ; this girl stood out to him. This will affect the plot by changing his way of thinking. It will make him wanna see this girl and talk to her.

“Then the door banged open, boom, not so loud this time, and here came Brian trotting across the patio.” (Fountain 102) Onomonopoetia 

This quote shows Brian as a person and what his character is like. It says “not so loud this time”. But it still explains he slammed the door open. This can lead us to believe that he is more of a loud, outgoing or maybe obnoxious person.

The overall message of this section is probably change. Billy begins to change the way he is thinking about war and how he doesn’t wanna go because of this woman he met.

Slaughterhouse V

In the ⅔ of the way through the book Billy visits a planet called Tralfamadore and he meets the aliens there and tries to learn their language, planet, rules, everything he should know. The flying saucer with Billy in it passes through a time warp to try and reach the alien world much quicker (Tralfamadore). Billy jumps back and forth through all different memories he had, from tralfamadore back to earth and he keeps jumping back to his 12 year old self, where he briefly visits the grand canyon with his parents. The family visits Carlsbad cavern, Billy is praying to be rescued before the ceiling collapses. 

“The place was crammed with Americans who had taken their pants down. The welcome feast had made them as sick as volcanoes. The buckets were full or had been kicked over” (Kurt 125). --Hyperbole, Simile, Imagery, Metaphor

This quote shows that Billy and everyone else in the war fighting are so hungry that their stomachs shrink so when they have a lot of food to enjoy, they get sick to their stomachs if they eat too much. A lot of soldiers stay in one thing all together so I can imagine the gross stuff they go through or do. 

“Now she fluttered her eyelids, Her lashes were like buggy whips” (Kurt 132). --Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor

“Billy sniffed. His hot bed smelled like a mushroom cellar. He had had a wet dream about Montana wildhack” (Kurt 134). --Metaphor, Simile, Imagery

Billy had a wet dream about Montana when he was sleeping but in that dream he was also in tralfamadore in a cage, and that's where he met Montana. The aliens wanted to see how humans reproduce. So they are calling Billy and Montana, Adam and Eve. 

“The theater was paved with American bodies that nestled like spoons. Most of the Americans were in stupors or asleep. Their gut was fluttering, dry” (Kurt 144). --Imagery, Simile, Metaphor 

johnny got his gun.

Johnny in this section is trying to get more control over his life after having every limb blown off in an explosion.

1“He had to stop things from fading away and then rushing back at him.” (Trumbo 80) Perspective, imagery, 

2“ two times two is four, four times four is sixteen  … that was as far as he could go.”(Trumbo 123) repetition, understatement

3“If he could dislodge the mask then he was not completely helpless.”(Trumbo 87)

Plot, character, perspective 

This quote shows that johnny is doing something, no matter how seemingly mundane, to take some control over his new life.

4“She was somebody and she was a friend he was not alone any longer.” (Trumbo 94)

Understatement, paradox

This quote shows that you always need someone even if you don’t know who they are they can be one of the only things that matters. 

The overall message of this section of the novel is that war forces people to their limits and that it is possible to get some control of your life. 

Summary: Back in the present, Billy meets Norm Oglesby, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, in a meet and greet populated by rich Texans. He also meets Faison, a christian blonde cheerleader, and they end up in a relationship. Later Billy will be in a football field waiting to film a commercial. Moving on he will meet Octavian who asks him about the weapon he used to use in Iraq and Ennis who will give Billy and Dime a tour of the equipment tour.

“Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars” (Pag 114)- Metaphor, Simile

“She really digs him, that they’ll meet, exchange digits, go out on a date, go out on more dates, have sex/fall in love, marry, procreate, raise excellent children and have incredible sex for the rest of their lives” (Pag 132)-Repetitions, hyperbole, imagery

This quote is referred to Faison the blonde cheerleader. It was a love at first sight for both of them and this quote explains delightfully how Billy fell in love in a few seconds. The hyperbole improves the reader's experience by showing the strong thrill that he felt. Figuring out this emotion will give the reader the ability to understand the decision that he will make in the chapters, because Faison will be a big part of Billy's story. 

“First this has to happen and then that has to happen and then about thirty more things simultaneously or in sequence without any previous item crapping out on you”(Pag 158)- Repetition, Hyperbole.

“Billy laughs, not that it’s funny. It’s not anything, in fact. He wonders if nothing’s an actual feeling or just nothing.”(Pag 177) Juxtaposition, repetition, juxtaposition. 

This quote shows Billy’s disappointment after the Octavian’s insistence. He kept asking about the weapons that Billy had used in Iraq. The juxtapositions really show how Billy is upset after the man’s questions. The message from this quote is the high hatred felt by Billy towards war. 

The message that transpires from this part of the book is that Billy is changed. He has a different thought about war, maybe caused by his new love, Faison or by the people that don’t know how painful the war can be.

        In the 2nd part of Slaughterhouse-Five, Weary is dying in a train car full of prisoners and he convinces one of his buddies named Paul Lazzaro that it was Billy’s fault for his death. From then on Lazzaro promised Weary that he would kill Billy because revenge is “the sweetest thing in life”. During this time Billy is “unstuck in time” and all of his flashbacks from his past and future life come back to him. All of the prisoners along with Billy are transported into Germany. The prisoners are unloaded from the train in the German town of Dresden to work in forced labor. The Germans hold Billy and the prisoners in an empty slaughterhouse called schlachthof-funf which means slaughterhouse five. During the bombing of Dresden Billy, the prisoners and some German guards hide in the slaughterhouse, which is well protected and allowed them to be some of the few survivors. After V-E day in May 1945, Billy was transferred to the USA and honorably discharged in July 1945. Billy is hospitalized with PTSD and is placed under watch by the Department of VA. After Billy is released, he marries Valencia Merble whose father owns the Ilium School of Optometry that Billy later attends. Because of this, he is very successful. Billy and Valencia end up having 2 kids. On the wedding day of Billy’s second kid, he is abducted by a flying saucer and taken to a different planet called Tralfamadore. Billy is used as a zoo animal for the Tralfamadorians so they also abduct a prostitute to make Billy and her mate with each other. After that event, Billy wakes up under a heated blanket in his own home.

• “Billy Hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in. His mother touched him, and he wet his pants”. (Vonnegut 89) Character, POV
• Next to Billy was little Paul Lazzaro, who had promised to avenge Roland Weary. Lazzaro wasn’t thinking about vengeance. He was thinking about his terrible bellyache. His stomach had shrunk to the size of a walnut.”(Vonnegut 92) Imagery, Perspective

This quote helps show how rough of a condition all of the American soldiers are in on the train. Lazzaro has a strong feeling of vengeance to kill Billy, but even at the moment when he would have a chance, he can’t do anything because of his body pains

• “Billy Pilgrim was on fire, having stood too close to the glowing stove… one of the Englishmen saw that Billy was on fire. ‘You’re on fire lad!’ he said, and he got Billy away from the stove and  beat out the sparks with his hand.”(Vonnegut 96,97) POV, Imagery

I like this quote because it’s showing Billy’s PTSD already kicking in. His head is already spinning enough that when he is still on the train, he is hallucinating and losing his sense of reality.

• “Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen-year-old fireman, mistaking him for a German soldier. So it goes”(Vonnegut 101) POV, Repetition

I think that the book is giving a negative message about war. This 2nd section of the book it is showing how the war and the imprisonment are affecting Billy and his mental state.

In the second part of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the Bravo Squad is settling down in the stadium. After lots of reassurance, the squad has finally been told they are taking part in the halftime show. In the midst of practicing for the show and touring the stadium, Billy falls in love with a cheerleader named Faison. It was love at first sight when they made out privately knowing they were deep in love. 

Billy has been in many contrasting settings, both in war and back at home. “One second the Bravos are the sludgiest sort of street-corner pervs, and the next they are the nation’s very spine and marrow, yes, near to holy they are, angelic warriors of America’s crusader dreams” (Pg. 124). This quote exemplifies juxtaposition because Billy is calling himself two things at once. He is calling himself a sludgy person and street-corner perv, but at the same time, he is calling himself America’s hero and an angel holding up the country’s spine and marrow. This quote helps me understand how the Bravo squad has a false identity from what they seem. They are heroes to the American people, but on the inside, they are just sluggish men and criminals trying to get girls and stay alive. This tells me that war, most of the time, is not fought by people who volunteer, but by people who have to or have no meaningful lives otherwise. 

With Billy’s experience of going through war and having the power of weapons and deadly devices, he finds it offensive for Mr. Jones to be carrying a side arm. “Maybe it’s Mr. Jones’s gun that sets him off, something about the presumption of it, the ignorance, the sheer fucking ego of carrying around an instrument of deadly force. Like you know?” (Pg. 145). Billy is very offended by the fact that Mr. Jones has a weapon. This quote exemplifies the literacy device plot because it is creating the idea of hate towards others who carry side arms that are not inflicted with war. 

While Billy is thinking of his deployment back in Iraq, he is hit with pain. “Abruptly he feels Shroom’s loss like an awl in the gut…” (Pg. 197). This small yet meaningful quote is a simile and repetition at the same time. It is a simile because he is comparing Shroom’s loss to the pain of getting an awl pierced in his gut. Meaning thinking of Shroom is painful. It is repetition because of Billy’s multiple occurrences of mental flashbacks of Shroom. His thoughts of Shroom turn on and off in his head, never seeming to go away. These two devices combined help me realize how war creates painful memories that repeat in your head. It is the repeating pain of thoughts that creates chronic PTSD which is starting to be seen in Billy’s thoughts. 

Before the Cowboy’s game is about to start, they play the singing of the national anthem. Previously in the novel, a man asks Billy what he’ll be thinking about during the playing of the anthem. Billy says he’ll be thinking about the war back in Iraq and Shroom’s death. He does think about Shroom, but also Faison and the moment they had together. “He makes it a point to think about Shrrom and Lake and the hot red blur of that terrible day, but he’s also, because he’s young and still hopeful for his life, scanning the sideline far below for Faison” (Pg. 204). Billy is having a flashback during the anthem of Shroom’s death and his interaction with Faison. 

The message about war in the second part of the novel is that war creates lots of repetition in the brain, creating flashbacks of moments of disaster and loss. This repetition can lead to symptoms of PTSD that poison the brain from within.

Summary- The second third of Johnny Got His Gun starts off with him regaining control over his thoughts, so he thinks through what is happening to him. He realizes that his face is covered with a cloth mask, and tries to take it off but remembers he literally can't do anything. He has trouble sleeping at night cause he can’t wake himself up from nightmares he has. He continues to have memories from when he was younger and everything was normal, and when he wakes up he feels lonelier than ever. Joe also wonders why he was asked to go to war, and why war even starts in the first place. Joe celebrated his new year after counting 365 days, then he remembers all his good new Year memories. 

Quotes- 

“But by the time they got the important things like his eyes and nose and mouth fixed up the gangrene had started in his legs and arms.” (Pg. 84) Imagery

“He would never walk with his legs on the ground. He would never run or jump or stretch out when he was tired. He would never be tired.” (Pg. 81) Repetition

This quote gives us a better understanding of what Joe is going through, and that he will never be able to do virtually anything ever again

“He was ignorant as a baby when he really tried to think.” (125) Simile

“It was like a full grown man suddenly being stuffed back into his mother's body. He was lying in stillness. He was completely helpless.” (Pg. 81) Simile

Same idea, this quote helps explain more of what Joe feels like being trapped on this bed for the rest of his life, not being able to communicate or see the world again

Message- War can do awful things to people, sometimes so bad that you might not be able to do anything ever again like Joe’s situation. Also really gives us an idea of how bad war can be. 

1. In this section of the book Johnny can’t see or hear and begins to lose his mind even more. Joe also doesn’t have any of his limbs on his body either. Joe starts conjuring memories up from his time fighting in war. Joe also starts having dreams and nightmares. Joe finds it hard to know when he's dreaming or awake and finds himself panicking about it. Joe lies around all day being nursed and has war memories before he became deaf, blind, and limbless. 
2. - “He felt like a child that has awakened weeping from a nightmare to find itself safe and snug in its mothers arms” (Trumbo, 94) This is an example of a simile and imagery. This quote helps show how Joe is feeling in the novel. “Maybe there wasn’t anyway. Maybe for the rest of his life he would just have to guess whether or not he was awake or asleep.” (Trumbo, 99) This quote shows repetition and imagery. As the book goes on it says “Maybe” multiple times and really shows Joe panicking. This quote really helps the reader understand how Joe is feeling and how war affects a soldier. “Lying on your back without anything to do or anywhere to go was kind of like being on a high hill away from noise and people. It was like being on a camping trip all by yourself.” (Trumbo, 109) This quote is a good example of similes, and imagery. This quote exemplifies these literary devices by showing the reader how Joe is feels lying in a hospital all day. “Oh god the happy happy new year he had counted three hundred and sixty-five days and now it was new years eve. It didn’t seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime.” (Trumbo, 141) This quote shows imagery, hyperbole, and repetition. The author uses repetition to show that it is already a new year. And the hyperbole really helped show that Joe is starting to panic and become depressed about being deaf, and blind.

-  “Maybe there wasn’t anyway. Maybe for the rest of his life he would just have to guess whether or not he was awake or asleep.” (Trumbo, 99)  “Oh god the happy happy new year he had counted three hundred and sixty-five days and now it was new years eve. It didn’t seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime.” (Trumbo, 141) I think these 2 quotes show the most literacy terms out of the ⅔ part of this novel. It mostly uses imagery, and really helps the reader understand more about the main character joe. These also helped me understand more about the story, that war can cause the main character Joe to feel sad, panicked, and hopeless.

1. -”He thought here you are Joe Bonham lying like a side of beef all the rest of you're life for what?” (Trumbo, 109) This is just one of the many quotes that helps me understand more about war. War can cause people to feel useless/hopeless, and to lose self confidence.

The second third of the novel takes a turn to darker and heavier topics. The characters try to keep up their usual understated attitude but find it more difficult with everything happening. Hawkeye and Trapper have to go to Seoul to perform surgery on a general's son and When they return they experience the heaviest wave of casualties yet which is referred to as “The Deluge”. The surgeries are explained in great detail and while they don't buckle under the pressure of sometimes 20 hours days and a constant onslaught of heavily and gruesomely injured soldiers they do feel the aftereffects. They lash out more often and they have less of a pension for causing trouble. Hawkeye is the first to feel the aftereffects of The Deluge, he blames himself for mistakes and the death of a patient more than he would have at the beginning of the book. Colonel Blake has business in Japan and Colonel Delong fills in for him while he's gone. At that time Hawkeye, Trapper, and Duke take extreme advantage of Henry’s absence and take a vacation in Seoul by convincing Delong that Hawkeye had gone crazy and was in desperate need of psychiatric help. 

1. “‘oh, Mama, I'm dying!’ It looked like a gushing well, and a fascinated group gathered to watch. As well as crested and the blood descended. It fell on the face of the soldier and into his mouth. He coughed, spraying his rapt audience with blood.” (Hooker, 106) Imagery, understatement

Before The Deluge, nothing was taken very seriously. Sure they all understood the importance of not taking their jobs lightly but The Deluge brought the weight of their situation to a head. The use of imagery gruesomely painted a picture of the life-and death-situations the doctors and patience were in. The novel is written in a very “this happened, then that happened” kind of way that leaves the character's personal feelings and perspectives out of the picture. The use of imagery was a way of conveying the emotional seriousness of The Deluge to the reader without directly saying how the characters were disturbed or upset.

1. “The business of doing surgery on poor-risk patients can be trying and heartbreaking at any time, and when it is done regularly it can have an increasingly deleterious effect upon those who are doing it. It is therefore inevitable that The Deluge should have its after-effects, not only on the patients that survived but also to the surgeons that contributed to that survival.”(Hooker, 116) Plot, character, understatement

The entirety of the book up until this point has been a ridiculous situation after ridiculous situation. The swampmen just trying to not lose themselves in a medical warzone. After the Deluge, the book finally starts to address the toll their circumstances would take on someone. The beginning of chapter 10 foreshadows a change in tone as well as a fundamental change in the characters. It feels like a broken record to say understatement but it's very hard to go a page without something serious or messed up happening only for the author to explain it like a robot. It's the definition of “show don't tell” and even in the show department, it's not overly descriptive. It certainly leaves much to be desired. That being said, the understated way of writing does a good job of conveying what it needs to and it comes across the way the author would have intended. It leaves the reader, in its serious moments at least, with an understanding of how in war the characters can't take in everything that's happening, they have to find ways to take their minds off it to stay sane. The contrast between the first half of the book and that of The Deluge brings the reader back into perspective that they are in a warzone treating torn apart soldiers. 

1. “‘We can operate on him safely. We should do it quickly, but we don't have to do it frantically or carelessly.’” (Hooker, 139) Character, Juxtaposition, 
2. “‘Look, God damn it,’... ‘you know as well as I do that he should have had another hour and at least three pints before they brought him in here. What the hell’s the matter with you, anyway?’” (Hooker, 119) Character, Plot, Hyperbole 

As the message of the novel develops the theme of conformity in the military is still prevalent. However, the message of dehumanization being necessary in order to stay sane in war becomes more encompassing.

Since the last reason I have seen some change in the characters, the fact of war is really setting in and getting to some of them. The Swampmen try to cope with it in different ways one of them is by making a recreational football league vs General Hammond team. There have been some new characters starting to become more important in the surgical tent like Drago red, ugly, and Henery. A major event that happens is when Hawkeye gets the idea to start a football team. “Hawkeye said ‘we oughta get us up a football team.’”(Hooker 154) They create this football team to help get their mind off all the horrible things they have seen in deployment. This shows plot and pov, I think it shows plot best because it gives us the timeline of events, or cause and effect kind of way. They were having issues with taking their minds off all the bad things they have seen in war so they created this football team to help cope. “He was the only kid to break ninety.”(Hooker 78) This is a quote talking about Hawkeye's formative years in golf. He was a caddy and a great player as well. He started playing golf in his off time in the war and this is reminding him of the better years before the war. This Quote shows plot, pov, and character. It exemplifies pov really well because golf reminds him of better times and he plays golf to help cope with the war. “ ‘Who’s going to take him out?’ ‘You are,’ Trapper said ‘why me’ said Henery’ ” (Hooker 115) Henry spots a Korean kid and they have to kill him but they all clearly have trouble with taking his life. This shows character and pov.  “ The epileptic whore was in popular demand… ‘when you gonna try here’ said Duke ‘Never’ replied Hawkeye ‘im a man of simple needs,’ (Hooker 151) There was a new tent set up for a prostitute, many men went in that tent for pleasure but hawkeye would not, this shows character and pov.

This third of the novel started with Trapper and Hawkeye playing golf with clubs and golf balls from japan, during their golfing they received word from a helicopter pilot that the general wants them to fly to Kokura and operate on a congressman's son. But the Kokura open for golf is on the same day they operate so they plan to see him early to not miss the open, later on, they return back to camp and are thrown right into it working tirelessly. 

1. “From the number and nature of the casualties… that the situation on old baldy would get worse before it got better.” (Hooker 102)---P.O.V 
2. “The incident involving Hawkeye and Ugly John was a minor one-at least, as it concerned them-but it was the first sign of things to come.” (Hooker 119)---Plot

The quote shows how the war is going and shows us a point of view coming from one of the characters and not the writer. It helps me understand from his point of view which provides a new look at the war from a doctor's view we usually see points of view from the person killing and injuring people, but we never see from the doctor's side. 

1. “If you don't stop those beasts, those THINGS, that one they call Trapper John from addressing me as Hot-Lips and stirring up those others, I'm going to resign my commission and…” (Hooker 131)---Plot, P.O.V
2. “the anesthesiologist claimed that after any long case the patient, who'd been receiving the appropriate intravenous fluids, was usually healthier than the surgeon. Sleep for the weary workers was absolutely necessary but nearly impossible, particularly for the Swampmen, who was working the night shift and trying to sleep during the day” (Hooker 136)---Plot, P.O.V

This quote helps me understand from another view of a doctor how bad the work environment is. Patients are healthier than the person working on them which is a shocking thing to think about. It shows us the tireless routine of the Swampmen working during the night and sleeping during the day. 

In the novel Eleven Days in the 2/3 way through it is all about the stuff Jason saw while on tours. It is his perspective and view on what he went through while gone and what went through his mind. He talks about how mentally it can mess you up unless you find a way to cope with the things you have to see. He also talks about home and his mom, talking about details of her and special days when home. 

“Was one of the largest losses of life in the Afghanistan campaign and in Special Operations Forces history. A lieutenant and three petty officers: this was the scope of their brigade. Estimates of the enemy contingent that arrived to take them down: around two hundred. All sixteen men on the quick reaction force copter died; rocket-propelled grenade.”(Carpenter 136) -Imagery

This quote helped me understand what Jason and other soldiers have gone through, how much death is surrounded by you. 

“These experiences,among others,reinforced for Jason what had become a central trope: Nothing is what it seems. What was the most amazing about the day they found those dead bodies was that no one had discussed it. It was a quick op,the pressure was high,they were there to try and find one thing. And once they had found it,it was time to go. They weren’t archaeologists. They weren’t war correspondents. They were warriors.”(Carpenter 148-149) -Perspective, Character 

This quote helped me understand how these missions go, and how quickly they can turn into something else. They were only there for one thing and in the process also found a mass death, not sure if it was a mass suicide or not because they were moving quickly. 

“This is the gun he had practiced shooting(Illegally) in the backyard in Pennsylvania for days during his first leave. He was determined to get better. He was determined to prefect his shot.”(Carpenter 169) -Character, Plot 

“She always wrote at the end of her letters. She was adamant that she would appreciate the upsides: the fact he’d elected to surprise her. The fact he looked well. The fact that he seemed happy.”(Carpenter 122) - Repetition, Character   

The overall message I got from this portion of the novel is that you see death everywhere when your on tour. You see some really messed up things but you have to push through it every single time.  

The Bravo squad has an interview and meeting where they give small speeches and get to know other people at the football game along with getting interviewed for news articles. After the meeting, the Bravo squad meets the cheerleaders. Billy has his eyes on one specific cheerleader named Faison, who he, later on, ends up getting to know very well. Bravo is then practicing a speech for halftime and then brought in to meet the texas football team. They go and introduce themselves and then get footballs signed by the players after touring the locker room. Octavian, one of the football players asks Billy what the war was like and everything that was happening, and what he has personally done in the war. After Bill tells some of the football players what he has experienced, some of them ask if they can go and help out for a few weeks and come back. Billy responded with no and told them they have to join the army if they wanted to do that. The football players didn’t like that and it turned Billy’s impression sideways of them. Shortly after this, Bravo leaves the locker room because the game is about to start and heads to a booth where it seems like all of the rich and wealthy people are staying to watch the game. Billy sits and talks and has a drink with them and then the star-spangled banner starts playing. This brings a whole new mood to Billy. After the game starts Billy leaves the booth and sits down a few more rows of stands. Billy spots Faison in the group of cheerleaders and can't keep his eyes off her. Lastly, throughout this section of the book, not a lot is happening for Billy externally, but he has a lot of different things going on internally. 

“... Billy knows that six weeks ago he wouldn't have conceived of such a move, much less followed through, Three weeks ago, same, three days, check, so evidently something has happened to him. He keeps his eyes open the whole way in, and Faison’s eyes gradually merge into a single brilliant ball like a picture of Earth as seen from outer space. The first kiss feels like a pressure release, like bursting a bubble with a touch of the lips. He pulled back and discovered pleasure in the restraint. They stare at each other from a couple of inches distance. She sees stoned, out of it, then lifts her face and they kiss again. He wants to tell her how amazing her lips are, softer than anything he’s ever touched. Did you know he wants to say, but the tool is otherwise engaged as they linger, mouths drunk in soft-tissue probings, then it’s like a starting gun has fired because they’re going at each other like a couple of sophomores under the bleachers, a high-energy bout of gymnastics making out that seems to have as its goal the cramming, the actual forcing of their entire bodies down each other’s throat” (Fountain 153). Imagery, Perspective, Plot, character 

This is an important quote from the book because it helps the reader understand the connection Billy felt for Faison. This quote shows that Billy has changed his character because he did something that he wouldn’t have done on any other day. It shows perspective because the scene it is showing what Billy is taking out of the experience and how he is reacting to everything that is happening. It also shows P.O.V. because it allows the reader to know Billy is thinking through this whole thing and what he is taking away from her body language. 

“Billy is looking for a certain kind of kid to give the football to… Billy is looking for himself…‘Look, Cougar, I’ve got an autographed ball here, a bunch of the Cowboys signed out for me down in the locker room. But I’m going back to Iraq and I’ll just lose it there, so I want you to have it. Are you alright with that?’ Cougar risks a quick look at the ball and nods. Clearly, he thinks this is the setup for some low humiliation, a wedgie, a firecracker down the back.”(Fountain 189). Character, P.O.V., understatement 

“The players snort, mutter, and cast pitying glances his way. Fuck that. Shee-uh Hell to the naw naw naw… ‘We got jobs,’ Octavian impresses on him, “this here our job, how you think we gonna quit our job go join some ni**a’s army? Fah like wha, three years? Break our contract an’ all?’Hilarious. They’re laughing. Little squeals and snuffling yips escape their mouths. ‘Go on now. Yo’ boy over there callin’ you’”(Fountain 187). Perspective, character, hyperbole 

This quote helps the reader understand that the football players thought the stories and war were all fun and games and even wanted to go to Iraq and help out for a few weeks until Billy told them what they’d have to give up in order to do that. This quote shows perspective because it is showing the readers how the football players feel after Billy tells them they’d have to join and leave what they have now behind for a while. This also connects to showing hyperbole because they are over the top about their reaction. They emphasize the fact that football is their life, it's their “Job” and it's not something they can just leave. It also shows hyperbole because all Billy did was inform them that they’d have to actually join the army if they wanted to go to Iraq with them for a while. 

“Billy holds his salute. He makes it a point to think about Shroom and Lake and the hot red blur of that terrible day, but he’s also, because he’s young and still hopeful for his life, scanning the sideline below for Faison. He systematically ticks his gaze from one cheerleader to the next, no, no, no, no, a dozen no’s then yes and his head spins like a car on ice, and airy whoosh into sideways acceleration with all the nausea, the panic, the full butthole pucker, it is a roller-coaster ride to oblivion.” (Fountain 204). Onomatopoeia, simile, perspective, P.O.V., 

The Message I got about the war in this section of the book is that war isn’t what everyone expects it to be. War can have an impact on a person's mental health and it’s not something that should be taken easy or as a joke. 

At the beginning of the second part of the book the Bravos meet the Cowboys owner Norm Oglesby. The Bravos have multiple meet and greets and Cowboys top executives have Time magazines for them to sign. Now for the time they all have been waiting for, they get to meet the cheerleaders. Right after that the Bravos talk to the media about the Cowboys and Billy talks about their battle. Billy gets in an affair with a cheerleader named Faison. The Bravo’s get on the field and Dime throws passes to Billy. The Cowboys owner gives free footballs to all of the Bravo team. The Bravo team meets Cowboys players and they ask them for a lot of autographs. Multiple players ask the Bravos about the battle and war. Billy had an idea on if the players on the team would join the Army. The players had other ideas about it. Billy had a great idea on giving his football away to a young fan that reminds him of himself. The Cowboys owner invites the Bravo team to his suite to watch the first quarter. While they are freezing in the stands Billy brings Mango on a walk to find Faison. Billy is able to find Faison but they are quickly yelled at to go. Faison makes sure to yell to Billy telling him she will see him on the field during halftime. 

1. “Not a leering perv look but more like that of a childhood friend encountering the splendid grownup version of the knock kneed, noodle armed, grass flecked little girl he used to chase around the playground in first grade”(Fountain 147). P.O.V, Juxtaposition, Simile, Imagery 

Billy looks at the cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys named Fasion. He insists he didn’t look at her in a weird way. Then he goes on to say that he looked at her like she was someone he chased at the playground in first grade. The literary term simile made me understand that he compares something to how he really wants to talk to this cheerleader. He has been looking for a cheerleader to talk to for the whole time at the stadium. 

1. “He’s looking for a little redneck kid, an under grown runt with ratty hair and nails chewed down to bloody nubs, about as aware at ten years old as a half bright dog and basically miserable, but doesn't know it yet”(Fountain 189). P.O.V, Metaphor, Imagery

This quote made me understand that Billy when growing up did not come from a good background in his childhood. In the quote he is explaining exactly what he was when a kid. This is a great example of metaphor because it compares two things while using imagery. Billy compares his childhood and what he looked like at that age to what he wants the kid he is giving the football to. 

1. “A round of applause greets Bravo as they file into the suite…Yaaay for Bravo! Hooray for the troops!”(Fountain 190). Plot, P.O.V, Character 
2. “Faison gives a little jump and yells Billy’s name…Billy leans over the railing and calls down to her”(Fountain). Plot, P.O.V, Character, Imagery

War is life changing, it can cause the want for love and can change the way you look at life.

Mash 

In this third of the book Hawkeye and trapper are going to a golf tournament and on the way there they have to stop in and do surgery and other stuff on other patience before going to the tournament while there they were playing and won a bet against someone and they they lost after they qualified for the tournament so there first game in the tournament. 

¨We've got plenty of blood. Once we get to the heart we've gotta close the holes quick or we lose.¨ This is an example of understatement because it shows if he starts bleeding then they lose. If the guy is bleeding too much he will die, not just lose the game. This helps me understand that this isn't just a game, this is a man's life on the line. 

¨You Are getting pretty hard to live with, pierce says and that kid on the table may be pretty hard for someone to live without. Hawkeye said.¨ This is an example of juxtaposition because it shows the difference between two different people but some people can live without one whereas some others may not. This helps me understand how some people have different mindset and can not live with people that have lost their live and others can be cold hearted. 

¨The corpsman removed the bandage. The patient turned his head to the left. Blood shot two feet into the air from the hole in his right neck where a mortar fragment had entered the soldiers yelled.¨ This is an example of imagery because it shows you can see the blood shooting out of his neck and flying 2 feet in the air. 

It looks like a gushing well and a fascinated group gathered to watch. This is also another example of imagery because you can imagine the blood gushing out like a well from his neck. 

War is life or death and for some people you have to lose people to gain people. 

In this section of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the Bravos meet the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Norm Oglesby. Meanwhile, Billy and Mango are trying to keep calm although they are very high during the meet and greet. The executive gives Billy a spiked drink and tries to find Advil for him as well. As Billy watches Norm work in the room of people, he feels bad for him and is impressed by his business skills at the same time. Dime then attacks Billy because it looks like he’s “flaking”. During Norm’s patriotic speech about the Bravos, Billy is unable to focus due to the nearby cheerleaders distracting him. An interview happens where Dime puts Billy on the spot about what happened during the infamous battle, but all he can think about is Shroom. Billy starts to form a crush on a strawberry-blonde cheerleader that he had made eye contact during the interview. All his thoughts are about how fake the whole situation is and trying to make eye contact with his crush. The cheerleader Faison tells Billy that he is very brave for everything that happened and asks him if he is Christian. She then goes on a tangent about how God wanted them to meet. All Billy can think about is making a move and then suddenly they are making out. “Dry-humping for the Lord” is an appropriate chapter title as Faison and Billy continue their session until they are done. Faison tells Billy that she doesn't normally act so casually with her body, so there has to be something special between them. Before they have a chance to go again she is called back to her cheerleading duties. While Billy was with Faison a lot happened with their movie deal and it now seems like Norm may be the Bravos’ best chance for producing their film. Billy really wants to talk to Dime about his cheerleader, Faison. The group is given footballs for their shoot but they end up playing pass and tackling each other on the field until some angry Cowboys players tell them to get off the field. Luckily, Norm thinks it is funny and moves on to get the shoot started. Norm allows the Bravos to keep their footballs and spend time getting signatures from the team, but the players make Billy uncomfortable so he stays out of it for now. During Norm’s pre-game speech, Billy wonders why these guys don’t go to war due to their giant size. Billy decides to give his football away to a kid that reminds him of himself and Mango does the same. Billy watches Dime as he talks to those in the room which reminds Billy of the time Dime made Bravo walk patrol, and they ended up teaching a group of boys a better way to beg for money. During the Star-Spangled Banner, Billy spots Faison and thinks about her. Then a group of women misinterprets him as being pained with patriotism because of the song, so they try and comfort him. 

“Billy and his cheerleader continue their face work---glances, smiles, brow-scrunching mugs, then this amazing soulful stare that lasts for several seconds. He feels strangely porous, as if his vital organs have turned into Nerf balls.”  (Fountain 134). Simile and imagery. 

Explaining and using imagery to show how he is interacting with this cheerleader tells the reader how he feels about this person. It tells me that he likes this girl very much. The simile further explains even further how he feels on the inside about this girl. 

“What? Jesus Christ, lose what, Billy, how long were you with her, then minutes? You guys mugged down, great excellent, I’m really happy for you, but I don’t think you’ve got anything to lose.” (Fountain 179). Point of view.

Billy really likes this girl and really does not want to lose her and he wants to be able to come back from Iraq and see her again. On the other hand, Dime does not think that this girl should matter to him nearly as much as she does. 

“Outer shell made up of cutting-edge polymers, resins, and epoxies that can take a hit like this, WHAM, both soldiers jump back as Ennis slams the helmet to the floor with astounding violence.” (Fountain 181). Onomatopoeia and Imagery. 

“witness bearing deeds acks of sack-rih-fice free-dom… troops heros pleased proud happy thank honor acknowledge” (Fountain 149, 191). Repetition.  

I believe that the message of this section is that citizens do not understand the struggles soldiers face during their time on and off the battlefield.

“Where can I sleep?” he asked quietly. “Not with me .” “Not with me, you son of a bitch,” said somebody else. “You yell and you kick.” “I do?” “You're damn right you do. And Whimper.(Vonnegut 78/79) character 

This shows how Billy is trapped in time and show how when he sleeps he travels back in time to a worse time but it is not actually time traveling but just remembering bad memories showing him timetraviling might be  just remembering the terrible  experiences during the war and even while in one time while he's asleep in the dream world he talks about his trama in his sleep.

Billy blacked out as he walked through gate after gate. He came to in what he thought might be a building on Tralfamadore. It was shrilly lit and lined with white tiles. It was on Earth, though. It was a delousing station through which all new prisoners had to pass. Billy did as he was told, took off his clothes. That was the first thing they told him to do on tralfamadore, too.(Vonnegut 83)perspective 

This shows how he might have gotten so obsessed with the aliens he was so traumatized from the war that his way to cope was to make some kind of alternate reality where he was basically immortal in time and where the thing that caused him so much trauma were just aliens that were nice to him and decided out of a whole group of people to give him the secrets of the universe.

“They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming poo when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon.”(vonnegut 100) Imagery 

“There they go, there they go,” he meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.(Vonnegut 125)

Repetition

The theme of the book is to show how the war vets paid a lot during the war some with their live, some with their morals, some with their minds, and some with a little piece of them, Billy has had that little piece of him taken and when goes to sleep he gets to relive the trauma that he had received during the war and what he had seen with structure that

“reminded” him of an building he had seen at an alien planet. Showing how some of the war vets paid for during the war