"You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it's never the same. A question of degree...For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: the mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you're risking something...She wanted more. She wanted to penetrate deeper into the mystery of herself, and after a time the wanting became needing, which then turned to craving," (page 109).
Mary Anne Bell is one confusing girl. I don't really understand what happened to her in this chapter. They keep saying that she wanders off with the "Greenies" and I am assuming that they are the enemy special forces. So basically in "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong," Mary Anne becomes a traitor and sides with the opposing forces. It is DEFINITELY situational irony. I never thought the sweet, teenage girl would become a rough, war woman. First of all, how does that even happen? How does Mitchell Sanders even get her over there without being caught? It is hard for me to believe that she could just live over there with him, and everyone was okay with it. Even if that did happen, how did the Greenies allow her to just switch sides and stay with them? If she was supposed to be an enemy, wouldn't they take defense to her presence? She literally just made herself right at home with soldiers and made a life out of it. That is like me going over to Iraq and just hanging out with the army! I really liked this chapter, but I thought it was really confusing. Can somebody help me out, please!?
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No, the Greenies were our own Special Operations Force. But they sort of ran themselves.
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