The battle is mostly start at the beginning of the morning, the soldiers and fires keep coming on the battle field, and soldiers’ dead bodies lay on ground everywhere.
“Stop the Sun”- the story title, it has a significance (meaning). Its mean, in order to stay away from death by war, the sun shouldn’t appear. Terry’s dad was the man who only survived out of 54 mans, he wanted to “stop the sun” in order to survived from the bloody paddy. When the sun appeared, he was extremely nervous because he might get shoot by north vietnamese soldiers. He wished he could “stop the sun” because his enemy will not be able to see him. In my opinion, maybe Terry’s dad wanted to stop the sun from shined its light because he didn’t want people died because of war.
Excellent post Joe. I like your use of image. Did you think about the metaphor? Usually when I think of light and dark, I think that light is good and dark is bad. Why do you think that dark is good and light is bad in this story?
ReplyDeleteAs I say in war, battle are mostly in morning and a lot of people died. But in night, battle happens and if US soldier knew how VN looked like before they entered Vn, they wouldn't died that much because of a lot of ambush.
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