Frankie’s Journey to Vietnam (Post 1)

In The Women by Kristin Hannah, the main character, Frankie, decides that she wants to go to the Vietnam War and become a nurse. She does this to originally go and be with brother, but before she even went to basic training she was informed that her brother had already died in the war. Soooo she goes to basic training, even though her parents don’t want her to. But it went well for her which is good, considering she grew up very privileged. She didn’t feel important enough though and was wanting to be a family hero.

Okay she does basic training and then she gets deployed. On the flight there they couldn’t even land right away they had to TAKE A LAP in the air because they were trying to shoot up the airport, which is crazy. At this point you can tell that Frankie is already regretting her decisions she was so nervous. When she finally got the hospital after her journey there, she was already over it and wanted to go home. But, I can’t blame her for that, I would probably feel the same. She tried to settle in but it was defiantly rough for her, she wasn’t to this new style of living at all.

After the first few days (when she finally settles into her room at least) she has her first real day at the hospital. And this….was BAD. The people who had been there for awhile referred to it as a MASCAL, which stands for mass casualty. So on her first day she had to go through the craziest thing they see at the hospital. Which was really traumatic for her, which it probably would be for anyone TBH. This really shook her up, and she felt useless because she didn’t really know what she should’ve been doing. All she could do was hold soldiers hands as they passed away, but this is super important and Frankie does realize that.

In the last chapter Frankie gets assigned to the neurosurgery block. She kinda fits in here and she feels like its her place. But, she also met this guy earlier. And she knows he’s bad for her but also, se doesn’t really care that much. He colleges are a little annoyed because they told her she shouldn’t be doing that either. They continue to have big explosions near them constantly, and Frankie feels like she can never catch a break with this. The job is incredibly overwhelming. I don’t know how they do it.

To be honest, this book is good. I like how it’s super action packed. It is keeping me very entertained as I read it and I wasn’t sure how much I was going to like it. But, so far, so good. Looking very promising. Frankie’s character does annoy me a little bit, not gonna lie. This is only because I feel like she knows not to be around the guy she met but it’s always in the back of her mind. Even when friend Ethel tells her otherwise. But, also I feel bad for Frankie because it’s been a super harsh environment and she’s feeling very lonely. She is super unsure of who she belongs with and what her purpose is in the grand scheme of things. As she hears about everyone else loosing loved ones in the war too, it’s all starting to settle in truly with how bad it is. Whereas before, Frankie was very sheltered and privileged about how things were in her life. I believe this is good for her to see things like this and be aware of what’s going on outside of her life that was so picture perfect before she left and her brother passed away.

Starter Post

The book I chose is The Women by Kristin Hannah. The reason I chose this book is because Jordyn did a one page presentation on it, and it seemed pretty interesting. I enjoy reading historical fiction, and this book is a good challenging book for me to read. I am reading this book with Brock. I am reading this book with a partner because I think group work is not my strong suit so doing more group assignments will be good for me. In this project I am looking forward to being able to have lots of reading independence, and I am interested to read a challenging book, something more advanced than what what I would normally pick. I am apprehensive about the length of the book, it will be a lot more reading than I am used to every week, but it will be good for me. To ensure success with this project, I am going to make sure to stay on schedule with my reading and not get behind, considering the book is longer than what I normally used to reading.

Motivating Emotions In The Crucible

Another motivating emotion seen in The Crucible is anger. Especially during the chaotic trials, many characters expressed moments of anger. John Proctor specifically, when he is interrogated by the people and then Mary Warren turns against him out of fear. Proctor unleashes his feelings of frustration and anger in the court room, “You are pulling heaven down and raising a whore!” (Miller 120). Proctor exclaims this as he sees Abigail getting her way again and Mary joining her. He is realizing that everyone is turning against him and he is being accused of witchcraft as well. Because of this, John Proctor is extremely angry with almost everyone in the room with him.

The target audience had their opinions changed by Bartolome de las Casas text written on the oppression of the Native American people.

The target audience that de las Casas had in mind most likely changed their opinions on the Native American people and the treatment of them by the Christians. This is due to the way de las Casas writes about the oppression of the Native people done by the Europeans. He frustratingly states that many of the Taino people had been murdered, tortured, separated from their families, and forced to do hard labor. De las Casas speaks of the Native people as if they are equal in superiority to the Europeans. He mentions that they are their own people with religion, morals, villages and traditions. De las Casas humanizes the Native American people showing to his audience that the cruelty and oppression towards them should not be tolerated by the European people anymore. For this reason, I believed he swayed his audience to realize what was happening was wrong, and not just because the Native people were claimed to be inferior to the Europeans.

Connection to cultural encounters and frontiers of De las Casas text.

“The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies” explains the horrific acts committed by the Spaniards against the Native American people as they continued their expansion into the Americas. De las Casas’s text shows the awakening to the harsh realities of the cultural encounters during the beginning of the New World and the expansion of the European empire. De las Casas states, “(Indians) fled to the mountains to escape these inhuman, ruthless, and ferocious acts, the Spanish captions, enemies of the human race” (90). The belligerent actions of the Spaniards is encapsulated by the words of De las Casas in his text. As they moved farther into the Americas, the Spaniards oppressed the Native Americans forcing them out of their villages, separating and killing families, and forcing them into slavery. This demonstrates the greediness of the Spaniards as they discovered new cultural encounters during their expansion of the European empire and the discovery of the New World.