Vietnam Character Analysis Laurro
Moreover, Lauro’s best part of the play was the characterization because the audience can capture the essence of the play through its characters. Throughout the play, we can see that all of the main characters go from the state of being happy to someone who is miserable due to the hardship that they face in Vietnam. The six girls who go to Vietnam War with a hope of getting advantages out of it, end up being depressed. After the girls come back from the war, the scenes of the war get stuck in their minds. They see the war everywhere in their daily life. Whitney is one of the characters that can not focus on her personal life and family after she gets back from the war. For example, Whitney says “ And I look at my family singing--and bandaged
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By comparing this to the beginning of the play, it is easy to notice that the feelings of the girls have changed a hundred and eighty degrees. They went from being so excited to go and get involved in the war to the war being a nightmare. They did not know what it is really like to see people dying in front of them and not being able to save their lives. In addition to that, most the people that they are dying there have the same ages as most of them, or even some of the soldiers are younger. They were asking for their moms, wanting them to be beside them before taking their last breath. This was too much for the girls to handle. For instance, Leeann explains, “[My patient] is an eighteen-years-old coming into surgery--and he’s so young he doesn’t even have hair on his face--I’m running along beside his stretcher, and he’s crying--Mommy? Mommy? Mommy? And I’m saying I’m here, baby--Mommy’s right here! Only I’m just twenty-one myself” (Lauro 81). This shows the reaction of Leeann toward with the soldier who is just two years younger than her. Here, it is easily to recognize how Leeann get stronger and more responsible because of what is facing during the war. Through the live performance, audience were able to capture the essence of the play by looking at the changes of the characters after and during the
By comparing this to the beginning of the play, it is easy to notice that the feelings of the girls have changed a hundred and eighty degrees. They went from being so excited to go and get involved in the war to the war being a nightmare. They did not know what it is really like to see people dying in front of them and not being able to save their lives. In addition to that, most the people that they are dying there have the same ages as most of them, or even some of the soldiers are younger. They were asking for their moms, wanting them to be beside them before taking their last breath. This was too much for the girls to handle. For instance, Leeann explains, “[My patient] is an eighteen-years-old coming into surgery--and he’s so young he doesn’t even have hair on his face--I’m running along beside his stretcher, and he’s crying--Mommy? Mommy? Mommy? And I’m saying I’m here, baby--Mommy’s right here! Only I’m just twenty-one myself” (Lauro 81). This shows the reaction of Leeann toward with the soldier who is just two years younger than her. Here, it is easily to recognize how Leeann get stronger and more responsible because of what is facing during the war. Through the live performance, audience were able to capture the essence of the play by looking at the changes of the characters after and during the