// War Literature

For the final project I have decided to research the lifestyles lived by soldiers in Vietnam, while at battle and when off duty. I feel this is better than my original idea of putting on a puppet show of episode 13 from Gravities Rainbow.  I plan on focusing more on their lifestyles while off duty. Discussing how soldiers coped with it, how it affected them there, and when they returned home. A lot of drug abuse took place in Vietnam by US soldiers I plan on writing about if that helped their moral of the war, ruined it, made them never want to come home, or kept rehab employees here very busy. I also would like to focus on other illegal acts which took place there such as prostitution, and corruption. So far for sources, I plan on using Tim O’ Brien’s  The things they carried, Graham Green’s The Quiet American, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and The Deer Hunter.