Use ideas from these two passages to describe US soldiers' attitudes toward the communist guerillas they fought in Vietnam. Fiction: “He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. I was afraid of him – afraid of something – and as he passed me on the trail I threw a grenade that exploded at his feet and killed him.” — “Ambush,” Tim O’Brien

"Ambush" from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Copyright ©1990 by Tim O'Brien. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Nonfiction: “The men we had scorned as peasant guerrillas were, in fact, a lethal, determined enemy . . . . we fought for no cause other than our own survival.”

— A Rumor of War Philip Caputo

"Prologue pgs xiii-xvi" from the book A Rumor of War, edited by Philip Caputo. Copyright ©1977 by Philip Caputo. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company.

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.

here's some tricks. write on a book that you have read and really enjoyed. first, start by writing down basic event in the book. have your first paragraph be an intro explaining like the author, the reason the book was written if known, and other backround info like that. paragraph two explain what happens in the first few chapters and the signifigance it had. then for paragraph 3, do the same thing but for the middle. i'm pretty sure you get the point for paragraph 4. just rap things up and explain the call to action. for the final paragragh (paragraph 5) , explain your views on the book, the message, ect. tip: something that might is to go onto cliff notes or something and read the anaylisis of each chapter.

some books i recommend;

diary of anne frank

lord of the flies