#2

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2013)

#2. The different personalities of the three men (Steve, Mike and Nick) before they go to Vietnam and how it serves them as soldiers. Did their different approaches towards life serve as an accurate prelude to what was to happen? Could it have happened differently?
The three different personality affected them during the war because Nick was very compassionate, Steve was somewhat emotional unstable and Mike was very independent and was ready for almost anything to happen. For example in the scene where they where going up hunting for the last time before going off to war. Someone asked Mike if he could borrow the extra pair of boots that he brought up with him and Mike said no, and that's that. Nick was very compassionate to the point where he gave the person the boots and said to deal with it, they were leaving soon. I don't think anything different would've had happened. The personalities seems very concrete in these characters and the events that they saw during the war changed them. Steve was disabled, Mike didn't change much and Nick had a physiological break in his mind that he was playing Russian Roulette until he died from it.