After this week’s reading I could truly understand what a vignette
was. The vignettes I read about were
written by Tim O’Brien and they were from his book The Things They Carried. The
Things They Carried is about the Vietnam war
The first vignette
is titled Enemies and it is about two solider named Strunk and Jensen. These
two men get in a fight and O’Brien describes it in great detail. The author
made me feel like I was really in Vietnam, watching these two fight and I could
feel the tension between these two. I like the way O’Brien end the vignette, he
gives it a twist and I can see the conclusion even though it was very short.
The second vignette
is titled Style. It is mainly about a girl whose house was burned down and her
family inside was killed. The girl just
starts dancing and the soldiers keep watching her, not acknowledging that they
just destroyed everything she owns. The soldiers ignore her dancing because
they think it’s some weird ritual. As they leave, one of the soldiers decide to
make fun of her by copying her dancing.
You think the soldiers would laugh along, but one picks up the guy and
threatens to drop him in a well. One would think these stories would be predictable,
but they were not because they all had a twist at the end.
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