O'Brien's “On The Rainy River”
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Courage. An ambiguous word used to describe the motive behind numerous acts, encompassing a variety of definitions. Courage manifests itself in many different forms, most commonly, acts of physical courage; pushing the body into an act of bravery. Risking death to save a stranger from a burning ....
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.... of being drafted with the admission, “I was a coward. I went to the war”, thus reinforcing the superior strength required behind an act of moral courage, as opposed to one of physical courage.
Prior to being drafted, O’Brien admits to political naïveté. His perspective of the Vietnam War is not a passionate one; however, he is decidedly in opposition of the war, feeling that blood is being shed for unstable reasons. He saw “no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy ....
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