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On the Rainy River Literature Question
The reasons the narrator gives for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
The narrator's major reason for being against the Vietnam War is that it seemed wrong to
him. He argues that the people fighting the war were not united in their motives, and there was a
lot of uncertainty surrounding the war events. He was conflicted because he did not want to die
in the wrong war (O’Brien, 73). The narrator demonstrates that the moral confusion he had
regarding the way did not help in giving him a reason to support the Vietnam War.
The symbolic meaning of the factory as it pertains to the story.
The factory experience and ruthless slaughtering activities represent what happened in
the Vietnam war, where people were killed; it was just like being sent to a slaughterhouse. The
outcomes of the war are described through how he narrates the processes of using the water gun
machine, and the conveyer belt and the blood clots and hogs' decapitation somehow...