He thinks about the things and people he has left behind and the possible scenarios of what would have happened if he didn’t enlist into the army. Another copping mechanism that Richie does is he thinks about his home town of Harlem, New York. He also thinks about his past experiences back at home and in the war. He thinks about his mom, and his brother who means a lot to him even though he doesn’t show the expression towards his mother as much as his brother Kenny. What Perry does is to ‘escape’ the war is he tends to think about his family back home. Being a solder in the Vietnam War, Richard Perry needs to find a way to cope with what he has seen, what he has done, and with the war in general. He has witnessed so many disturbing scenes, like death, killing and even killing your own.
While fighting in Vietnam, Perry has witnessed things that nobody would want to witness in their lifetimes, things that really make you think and question your being. When perry landed in Vietnam, he defiantly was not ready to witness what was has to offer. The main character in the book, Richard Perry has just graduated high school and he has decided to enlist into the army because even with good grades he could not afford to go to college living with his alcoholic mother.
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