Vocabualry

Rapture(n.)- ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy
Source sentence- "A haunted look, Rat said--partly terror, partly rapture."(pg. 105)
Context Clues- I used the words around the word rapture
OG Sentence- The people in the church felt the rapture of the pastor during the seminar.

Impassive(Adj.)- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
Source sentence- "His eyes were flat and impassive."(pg. 60)
Context Clues- I thought about the movie "The Terminator" that he doesn't feel anything
OG Sentence- she was impassive when she heard the bad news.

Rectitude(n.)- rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue.
Source Sentence- "If at the end of a war story you fell uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."(pg.68-69)
Context Clues- there are talking about the morals and things about it so I figure it was about the same thing too.
OG Sentence- The rectitude of her motives.

The Human Heart

The important of making a good war story is when it strikes you in the heart. The story that hit me the most was when Rat Kiley went up to the baby water buffalo and shot it in the knee. That was just the beginning of the horrible act against the animal. Rat kept on shooting it in different area the nose, ear, the hump on its back and the buffalo didn't even make a sound, it kept on going down and up. Later on Rat went automatic and started shooting everywhere on its body. Eventually it went down and didn't get up anymore it eyes were enormous and black. Then Rat was crying and went off running. Everybody gather around the dead baby water buffalo one of them kicked it was still alive but barely just in the eyes.  They hauled it and threw him in the village well. That story got to me cause I'm an animal person,not like PETA, but i like animals. I took care of some in High School at the Fullerton Farm. I had three steers and two lambs in the four years that I went there. I was reading that part and it got me mad and felt sad for the baby water buffalo cause it was defenseless and that no one in the group did nothing  to help. What Rat whispered to the baby water buffalo i want to know and wanting to know why was he crying. Maybe realizing what he had done to the poor animal or for his friend dieing I want really what to so if any one know tell me.At least he could have done it quick and painless. In the back of the head or slice the throat like they do when they butcher an animal for meat. They dumped the corpse in the village well and not even eating whats left of the animal for a good source of protein and vitamins for their body. I could ask Tim O'Brien in person one day well have to wait and see.

Vocabulary

Stash (v.) to store in a usual secret place for future use
(pg. 40) Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in a finite quantities, like on inheritance and by being a frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interst..
Own Sentnce-I have a stash of chocalate bars under my bed
Context Clues I determine the conext clues was by using logic from the movie "Scar face"

Jingo(n.) a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinist.
(pg. 42) Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ's pretty daughters,or Westmoreland's whole handsome family-- nephews and neices and baby grandson.
Own Sentnce- So my plea is to stop the journalistic jingo and to start to think and report.

Conext Clues -from the words around the word Christ and liberal

Summa cum laude(n.) with highest praise: used in diplomas to grant the highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
(pg. 41) I had the world dicked--Phi Beta Kappa and president of the student body and a full-ride scholarship for grad studies at Harvard.
Own Sentnce I graduated from Cal Poly Ponoma summa cum laude.
Context Clues I determine from conext clues from lokking words around and found the words full-ride scholarship.

Vocabulary

Monsoons (n.)
Definition-The seasonal wind of the Indian ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
Original sentence- They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, humidity, the monsoons, the stinks of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
I used logic for this word cause of the context clues and i seen "Forest Gump" and he was in Vietnam war.
Own sentence-The Asiatic monsoon brings heavy rains to Southeast Asia in spring and summer.

The Burden

I carry the burden of the being the baby of my family. I'm one out of three my brother who would pick on me cause I'm the youngest one, also the darkest too. I get the hand me down cause I'm the smallest of the three the torn up pants, the shirts with the food stains on the chest. The shoes with the worn down sole where your feet touching the black asphalt, my socks getting wet when its rains. The cellphone that i got when i started high school it was a small white flip phone from T-Mobile it was beat up from my middle brother Able dropping it. i also carry the expectations of my family cause I'm the youngest. My dad and my always grinding me about the doing the same mistakes as my two older brothers. Like putting rims and a nice sound system in a car then going to work and finding out that your car goes missing for few days then show up on crates instead of wheels. Also buying a used truck near the ocean for the price he got screw him over. getting engagement to his high school sweet heart at the age of 20 or 19 and ending in them break off the engagement a year or two later. Also the expectations of going to college and doing something of my life. my dad wanting me to be a vet but i want to be an agriculture teacher i like seeing the look on kids faces when they see farm animals for the first time. But this burden has somewhat happy ending I'm the tallest one in the family but I'm still the darkest. i got a job and i can buy my own cloths when ever I want but my middle brother bought me a smart phone the Galaxy S buy one get one free deal. I got a new truck Chevy Silverado but i cant do anything for a year to it so that kinda sucks but no worries its all good. I'm going to college so we'll see where that leads up to hopefully to Cal Poly Pomona someday.