Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Mary Anne
The story about Mary Anne and Mark Fossy is extremly powerful in the same way I think the story about the patrol in the mountains is. It contains mystery and danger, but it is the kind that makes you want more, that you become addicted to. It is even described as a drug by O'Brien. I don't understand what it is in this young girl that falls in love with the danger of vietnam though. The men understand its horrors but Mary Anne says it's "Not bad". I believe it may be her opposite self, the person that is inside her that was never able to come out being a highschool cheerleader in a rural town. War must bring out sides of people that aren't present anywhere else. The stress and terror are beyond anything we can know as civilians and these factors brought out a person hidden deep inside Mary Anne.
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I was discussing with the class the fact that there are certain people that become so addicted to things instantly. They become adrenaline junkies from extreme situations resulting in an adrenaline rush. There is a particular metaphor in the book, and the page number escapes my mind, but it talks about Mary Anne being like an addict. I can see this relation easily because she becomes so consumed by the idea of danger and risk that she becomes addicted to putting herself under extreme circumstances.
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