Press ESC to cancel. Social studies. Ben Davis July 7, What happens to mark fossie in The Things They Carried? What happens to Mary Anne at the end of the chapter? Who does Mark fossie sneak into Vietnam? How did Rat Kiley die? How Does Rat Kiley feel about fear? How did Lemon die? What was lemon doing when he was killed? Why did Curt Lemon faint before his dentist visit?
Why did Lemon return to the dentist? What happens the first time Curt Lemon goes to the dentist? What does lemon do when he first meets with the dentist? What happened to Lemon at the dentist how did he fix the embarrassment? How did Mary Anne change in things they carried? Why did Mary Anne disappear? What does Kiley say happened to Mary Anne? What do the greenies believe happened to Mary Anne?
O'Brien recalls a story of Rat Kiley's. Though Rat swears the story is true, O'Brien doubts its accuracy. He explains that Rat exaggerates not because he wants to deceive, but because he wants listeners to almost feel the story so that it seems more real.
Rat had been assigned to a medical detachment near Tra Bong in an area the medics shared with six Green Berets. The groups did not interact often. During an all-night drinking session, a medic jokingly mentions that the medics should pool their money and import some prostitutes from Saigon. One medic, Mark Fossie, is taken by the idea, and six weeks later his high school sweetheart, Mary Anne Bell, arrives at the compound.
She assists when the medical unit receives casualties. Eventually she stops wearing make-up, and her attention is consumed by learning how to use an M assault rifle. Fossie suggests that she return home, but she does not. She begins staying out late, finally staying out all night. Fossie, realizing Mary Anne is missing, wakes up Rat. They search for her but do not find her. O'Brien interrupts the story to comment on how Rat told the story. Rat would stop with Mary Anne's disappearance and ask where she might be.
Mitchell Sanders guesses that she was with the Green Berets because Rat mentioned them, and that is how stories work. Rat would resume the story and tell his listeners that she was resting with the Green Berets in their hootch after an all-night ambush. The next morning Mary Anne returns wearing green fatigues and carrying a rifle. She even goes on an overnight ambush with the greenies without a gun.
She proves to be much more courageous than her boyfriend when put under pressure, and this puts a serious strain on their relationship. It shows how soldiers have to either embrace the culture or completely ignore it. Analysis Mark Fossie misses his girlfriend and decides to bring her out to Vietnam. Inside they see dozens of candles burning and hear tribal music.
On a post near the back of the bunk is the head of a leopard—its skin dangles from the rafters. When Fossie finally sees Mary Anne she is in the same outfit—pink sweater, white blouse, cotton skirt—that she was wearing when she arrived weeks before.
But when he approaches her, he sees a necklace made of human tongues around her neck. Kiley says that he never knew what happened with Mary Anne because three or four days later he received orders to join the Alpha Company. But he confesses that he loved Mary Anne—that everyone did. Two months after he left, when he ran into Eddie Diamond, he learned that Mary Anne delighted in night patrols and in the fire.
She had crossed to the other side and had become part of the land. He portrays a stark difference between the native world of Vietnam and the world of the Americans.
The difference between their experiences sets up a world in which the separate cultures are completely foreign to, and incompatible with, each other. Rather, the characters must choose a single cultural identity.
Fossie assumes that if he brings Mary Anne over to the relatively comfortable quarters he and his men keep, he will gain her comfort and companionship and she will remain unaffected by her surroundings. This fantasy is immediately shattered as Mary Anne is instantly curious about the things surrounding her—from the language and the locals to the ammunition and the procedures and finally the nature of war itself.
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