Critique and Analysis of "Goodbye Saigon" by Billy Joel

Song: We met as soul mates The soldiers were enthusiastic, buddies, and hopeful for a key out life. We leave as inmates, from an asylum The soldiers dreams/ideas of heroism, and valour were on the whole wrong And we were so gung ho to pose down our lives The soldiers thought theyd be heroes, that when they came back, they would be revered as fighters for freedom. And WE were penetrating; as sharp as knives And THEY were sharp; As sharp as knives Equalizes the States and Vietnam. cardinal were as deadly as each other. They direct us Playboy; They gave us Bob Hope Weak, useless, impermanent distractions. comely like drugs. A temporary getaway from the cosmos of war, guts, and blood. We remove in deep, And mutable on sight, And prayed to Jesus delivery boy with completely of our might These two lines just accentuate the fright that resided in the lives of the soldiers. (Relates to Platoon). As in Platoon, where the imagery is dark and colours ar dull, the soldiers couldnt settle anything and jab anything that moved. To the soldiers, who or why didnt yield at that time, it was their life or the shoot. Their realm forsook the soldiers. Their countries had sentenced them to near trusted destruction in Vietnam in a hopeless situation. Their country left them to die there.

The American people hated the soldiers, they precipitate on them. To them, their home countries had betrayed them. In this case, all that seemed to be left was God. And it was dark, so dark at night This has two meanings: the tangible and metaphorical. In the literal sense, the gentle wind was dark for the soldier (Relates to Platoon). The soldier was disillusioned, and couldnt see anything. Just as in Platoon. In the metaphorical sense, tincture stands for evil, If you take to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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