Chris Taylor In Vietnam

The cruelty of life can change one’s perspective of the world. When people experience difficulties in life, like loss and grief, they sometimes struggle to come to terms with the sadness and the truths of the reality. Some may be sustained to get a revenge due to the sudden loss in order to cope with the sadness within oneself and sometimes may become stuck. In the anti-war film Platoon written by Oliver Stone, Chris Taylor is a naive adolescent, who volunteers to go to war to fight for his country due to his moral obligation. The death of his mentor named Elias completely ends the remainder of the innocence that Chris once had, but additionally, Chris Taylor has become the reluctance to leave the war at the end of the film. Chris Taylor’s

Through Chris Taylor the author tends to suggest that soldiers in war tend to view war as a cycle and it is awfully common that innocence is lost when people start to become exposed to war. In the first few minutes into the film, the narrator reveals the scene in a stream of consciousness way accordingly introduces the new soldiers who just arrived at an unknown place in South Vietnam called Platoon, and as the new soldiers enter they simultaneously walk past the old soldiers that are just about to leave. One of the new soldiers happens to be Chris Taylor, who is well groomed and innocent. While the old soldiers are dirty with their inner self partially destroyed.The craft device that was used in this scene is a motif. Stone may be trying to suggest that the main character is still naive and has not yet been touched by the outside world hastily. The idea that Stone might be trying to suggest on a universal level through this little moment between the two soldiers is that the new soldiers are new to the war and they are completely clueless on what they have gotten themselves into, while on the other hand the old soldiers that has already been touched by war and happens to be completely destroyed during the duration of the war in some ways. When the two soldiers look at one

Through Chris Taylor the author tend to suggest that soldiers who has been partially damaged by war tend to view that war plays a role in the questioning of people’s morality and it is awfully common to face a loss or two when questioning. In the first few minutes of the movie, the main character thinks to himself in a stream of consciousness way, “I think I made a big mistake coming here.” The craft device that was used in this scene is a motif. The reader can infer that Chris is starting to question about his moral sense of right and wrong about coming to war; which results him to come to a conclusion that it was a wrong decision. The author is trying to show that often times people who do not visualize the consequences thoroughly tend to be the ones who will suffer the most. After the fight at the battle field, Chris thinks to himself randomly on the ground, “I wanted the events to start over again.” The craft device that was used in this scene is a motif. The readers can infer that the Chris has lost his innocence in all entirety but simultaneously wanting to regain the innocence that was lost. The author is trying to show that those who have experienced loss like death and innocence tend to be incapable to become the same person as before no matter how hard they tried. After the war has begun, the narrator reveals the main character’s stream of