In The Lake Of The Woods
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“…It wasn’t just the war that made him what he was. That’s too easy. It was everything – his whole nature…” – Eleanor K. Wade
IS THIS AN ADEQUATE EXPLANATION FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO JOHN WADE?
John Wade left America a human being, yet came back a human killer. His months in Vietnam were ....
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.... young and ambitious. Wade saw the war as a way of gaining ‘hero’ status in order to reach his lifelong ambitions of reaching the U.S Senate. When the revelations about his acts in the war were made, John Wade lost everything that he had fought so hard to build for himself. In this superficial way, one may argue that it was the war that ultimately led to who John Wade became at the end of the novel, yet many other factors involving his life before the war must be examined.
It was John W ....
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Word count: 830
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
