Big V essays

Big V essays The title of this story is the Big V written by William Pelfrey. Henry Winsted was drafted to the Vietnam 3 months after high school. When he is in the army he meets he meets a guy that turns out to be his best friend named Fai Bait. The Anachronism is henrys friend from high school that is the troop leader. Colonel Fetterman is in charged of all the troops that are going to Vietnam. Fai Bait gets transferred to Fort Polk for about six weeks and has to leave Henry. The colonel soon loses the Anachronisms troop and he later finds the Anachronisms dead body on his way to fight the Chinese. The war they have with the Chinese lasts for several hours. Colonel Fetterman finds the lost troop when he has his troop go with him when they fight the Chinese. They fight a war that no one wins. Fai Bait returns to Bangkok from Fort Polk immediately after the war is finished. When he gets there he goes straight to the colonels office to check the people that were killed in action to make sure his friends were still alive. The three major characters witch are Henry, Fai Bait, and the Anachronism change and grow as the story progresses because they learn how to communicate with each other instead of being shy with each other and they start talking to each other about private things. They all become very good friends and realize how good of friends they are when the Anachronism dies. The characters are dominated by love with each other. They take care of one another when they need help and they have their friends come before themselves. Henry feels angry seeing Fai Bait kill the innocent people with a flash round. The subordinate characters affect the plot majorly because they get transported to different areas and separated because of there slacking off in the fields. When that happens they lose track of each other and dont see one another for a couple of weeks. Most of the characters relate with each other with...