Angela Nguyen U.S History Per. 2 3/7/10 Caputo‚ Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 1977. I certainly enjoyed this autobiography. After reading this book about the author‚ Philip Caputo‚ as a young man enlisted and trained so hard to become an American Marine Lieutenant in the Vietnam War‚ it gave me a whole different perspective of the war. My views of the Vietnam War are usually from the stories my family used to tell me when I was little‚ but I have never
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A Rumor of War A Rumor of War is a book bases on personal experiences of the author Philip Caputo during the Vietnam War. Philip served in the United States Marine Corps (USMC). He was deployed in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. When he came back he chose to become a journalist. He is renowned for his book A Rumor of war which he wrote 10 years after returning from war. The book starts with Philip’s narrating the reason he joined the United States Marine Corps (page 1) and ends with him
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The memoir A Rumor of War depicts the journey of Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo throughout his service in Vietnam. Lieutenant Caputo gives a descriptive realization of what he experienced firsthand through basic training and on the front line of combat. He is quoted in the Prologue saying‚ “We learned the old lessons about fear‚ cowardice‚ courage‚ suffering‚ cruelty‚ and comradeship.” (Caputo‚ xv) Three of the adjectives that extremely stood out through the first two parts of his memoir were the
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War: Stories and Change “It is said that our most evocative sense is the sense of smell‚ and after the names of the villages and the numbers and the dates have grown dim in your memory‚ the thing you can never forget about a battlefield is the smell.” – Philip Caputo The most evocative of senses‚ smell‚ keeps war alive in the minds of soldiers and those around them‚ and the smell of war is never a good one. It tramples over every fiber of one’s being‚ screaming that all the surroundings are
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Autobiographies such as A Rumor of War can be a great source of information about topics throughout history. By definition an autobiography is considered a primary source. Primary sources are any documents that contain information about a topic either directly from the time in question or from the memory of a person who had been present in the time. Among the different types of sources there are autobiographies‚ photographs‚ newspapers‚ and a number of other things. Secondary sources are sources
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Madeline A. Lee Professor Mustachio ENG 111-W04 27 July 2014 A Rumor of War: A Literary Analysis Philip Caputo’s memoir‚ A Rumor of War‚ depicts the life altering experience of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young man who has only just graduated from high school. After serving his time in the war‚ seeing all of its horrors‚ and losing several comrades‚ Caputo returns home a changed man who has narrowly escaped dying in a war that he believes was fought for no reason. Throughout the course
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Analytical Review of A Rumor Of War Philip Caputo‚ the author of A Rumor of War‚ was born in 1941. He grew up to be an American author and journalist. Caputo is best known for A Rumor of War but has written 14 other books. He attended college at Loyola University of Chicago and after receiving his college education‚ in 1965 he went to serve in the Republic of Vietnam as a platoon commander in the United States Marine Corps. He served in combat and also received a number of awards and medals
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WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE Answers to the questions from the text (axcerpt from the novel) ”A Rumor Of War” by Philip Caputo. 1. Where does the action take place? The action takes place in Vietnam‚ during the Vietnam war. More specifically it takes place in a village called Ha Na‚ which is one of the biggest villages fronting the Vu Gia River. The village is surrounded by hedgegrows‚ trees/forrest and sugarcane fields. 2. What do the soldiers find in Ha Na? They found a large cashe of rice
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A Rumor of War: The Changes of a Solider The Vietnam War was seen by all as horrible and by many‚ senseless. War has the ability to change people‚ countries‚ and even the harmony of the planet. After the Vietnam War’s end‚ many Americans didn’t want to hear or speak about the war. Many of the citizens in America wanted to forget it ever occurred. The United States had lost their invincibility to their negligence; the nation believed it could do anything. They especially thought they could end
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The Vietnam war was one of the most controversial wars that the USA was in‚ citizens of the USA were outraged about the Vietnam war as the America sent 540‚000 troops over to Vietnam killing many Vietnamease children and elderly. The Vietnam War started in 1954 and ended in 1973 which is the setting of the book. The war is completely relevant to the book as that is all the book is about. Phillip Caputo was in the Marine Corps to prove something to his parents. He wanted to do something that his
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