DJ's

" Love"

"Jimmy Shooks his head. "it doesn't matter," he finally said. "I love her."

".... I told him that I'd like to write a story There's always hope, right?

After all these years, Lt. Cross is still hooked on Martha and i think that it's ridiculous. All this time he has never done anything to show her how he relly feels abot her unitl they once met again. But I'm a little confused about Martha. She is either not at all attractive to men because she never married after all these years; she has dedicated herself on helping other people. or she just really does not like him the way he feels about her. LT. Cross is a hopless dreamer. In the end he still thinks that Martha will eventually chage her mind and come back to him and love him the way he wants her to.

 The big idea of this passage is unrequited love. O;Brien wants to show his readers that not only did the soldiers from Vietnam War were fighting for their lives and their country, most of them were also fighting for the ones they love. There they were trying to be heroes at such a young age but in reality all thery're gettin are everydody else own problems on their shoulders. instead of finishing college and having a family all of them end up taking all sorts of drugs because they got bored.

The author is trying to show their love for others and how its still there even though they are so far away. Sometimes its hard to forget someone that youre in love with, and even though they dont seem to feel the same way it doesnt change the way you feel.And thats how the Lt. seems to feel about Martha but he still has hope of being with her. The tone here seems to be hopeful because hes saying how he still loves Martha and then his friend says theres still hope,but thats about all he has left.


 * "SPIN" **

"Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago.... When there is nothing to remember except the story." 38

Many veterans from the war suffered form mental illness. They never forgot about the killing, the bombing, the shooting and the dying of many of their peers. some sitll relive the war up to this days and many tell thier own stories. I agree with what JTim said in the passage; stories are histories that ties down with the past, present and the future. With all that happened back then, no one wants to preapeat history.

The **author's purpose** in this passage is to show his readers that sometimes, as much forgetting we try memories will always come back, live on and hunt us. And sometimes the only way to cope with it is to tell the story itself the way we remember.