Jarhead

The fun of reading this novel, or at least up to page 150, was how this was supposed to be almost supportive of the war but has so many negative aspects that make you look down on it. Like on page 33, the first paragraph reads "Like most good and great marines, I hated the Corps. I hated being a marine because more than all of the things in the world I wanted to be-- smart, famous, sexy, oversexed, drunk, fucked, high, alone, famous, smart, known, understood, loved, forgiven, oversexed, drunk, high, smart, sexy-- more than all of those things, I was a marine. A jarhead. A grunt."

Living in everyday life now, we see commercials for the Marine Corp. & they hype it up to such an extreme that you truly want to sign your life away. As we see Swofford "field fuck" I believe Keuhn, he comments how he's hitting him from behind for signing his life away & multiple other somewhat horrific things. Why do they glamourize joining the Army & other groups of protection when they know it's all falsified? Why do we, the people, believe it to be what they say? Are we that naive of a people to trust everything at face value when people tell us it? It's really upsetting how we are so easily lured into things just by how someone can manipulate words or situations into their own favor.