Comparing Mary Anne in Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong and Kurtz in Apo

Comparing Mary Anne in Sweetheart of the straining Tra Bong and Kurtz in Apocalypse Now In 1979, Francis Coppola released a scoot that he said he hoped would give its audience a palpate of the horror, the madness, the sensuousness, and the moral dilemma of the Vietnam war (as quoted in Hagen 230). His film, Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrads 1902 novel Heart of Darkness, is the story of Captain Benjamin Willards (Martin Sheen) journey to the intimate of the jungle of Southeastern Asia for the purpose of executing his orders to track down Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). at a time Kurtz is located, Willard is to terminate his command with extreme prejudice because Kurtz has raised an army of deserters and natives, whom he rules over like a fanatical war lord- When Willard finally reaches Kurtzs intricate and meets him, he discovers a man who has descended into primitive barbarism. From the beginning of their encounter, Kurtz knows why Willard was move to find him and makes no effort to stop Willard from slaying him with a machete. With his tutelage accomplished, Willard boards the boat that will take him. back to civilization. Tim OBriens story Sweetheart of the straining Tra Bong is like Apocalypse Now in that it is also most a character who crossed to the other side. Her name is Mary Anne and her boyfriend, denounce Fossie, has her shipped over to Vietnam to be with him. However, instead of reacting to the atmosphere of the war as Fossie thougbt she would, she becomes spellbound with the mystery of it, and over the course of the story is completely drawn in by the jungles allure. Over a period of weeks, she disappears on ambushes with a nigh squad of Green Berets and when finally confronted by Fossie, he fi... ...e Now (1979) Joseph Conrad and the goggle box War. Hollvwood As Historian American Film in a pagan Context. Ed. Peter C. Rollins. Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. 230-245. OBrien, Tim. How to Tell a True War Story, pen As Re-Vision A Studenls Anthology Ed. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. Needham Heights, MA Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing, 1996. 550-558. __________. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,. The Things They Carried. novel York Viking Penguin. 1990. 101-125. __________. The Vietnam in Me. Writing As Re- Vision A Students Antholoqy. 559-571. Phillips, Gene D. Conrad and moving picture The Art of Adaptation. New York Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1995. Watts, Cedric. Heart of Darkness. The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Ed. J.H. Stape. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1996. 45-62.