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ii, Read part of a song about the Vietnam War. What is the J6 6b fnCO Listen to an extract from Catch-22. in which the
songwriter's attitude to the war? Find evidence in the [yrics to
main characterYossarian explains his fear of combat to another
support your answer.
soldier, Clevinger. Which character gets angry and why?
6b TRCD Listen again and write Yossarian's two missing
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lines. Do you thinl< his argument mal<es sense? Why?/Why
not?
Farewell my wistful Saigon bride 'No one's trying to kitt you,' Clevinger cried.
l'm going out to stem the tide ?'Yossarian asked.
A tide that never saw the seas 'They're shooting at everyone,' Ctevinger ansWered. 'They're
It flows through jungles, round the trees trying to kilI everyone.'
s Some say it's yellow, some say red ,
It will not matter when we're dead -*-?'
S ffi-ffi1ffiffi ln pairs, look at the tittes of some fitms about the
How many dead men will it take Vietnam War. Then discuss the questions below.
To build a dike that will not break?
How many children must we kili Apocalypse Now Good Morning Vietnam
ro Before we make the waves stand still? AWOL Missing in Action
Born on the Fourth of Julv Platoon
The Deer Hunter The Walking Dead
H Discuss the questions. Give reasons for your opinions. Full MetalJacket We Were Soldiers
1 Who is the singer, do you thinl<?
1 Do you enioy watching war films? What do you [il<e or
2 Who is the Saigon bride?
dislike about them?
3 What is the significance of the words yellow and red
2 Why is the theme of war so popular with film-makers and
(tine 5)?
audiences?
3 Read the text about the Vietnam War and answer the 3 Can a war film ever convey an anti-war message? How?
questions below in your own words.
1 Why did Britain and the USA help create South Vietnam?
singers, musicians, artists and students, but with a few
2 Who were the Viet Cong?
high-profile celebrities from Hollywood and the media
3 Why was it difficult for the US government to resolve adding their voices to the protests. As more and more
the conflict? American troops were killed, the government struggled to
4 ln what sense did the Americans lose the war, bearing find a peaceful solution which wouldn't look like a defeat.
in mind their original aims? ln 1972, the Americans intensified their bombing
campaign against North Vietnam while at the same time
seeking a peace settlement. ln 1973, the Paris PeaceTreaty
WHENWORLDWARTWO ended in 1945, the small was agreed and US troops leftVietnam. However, two
South-East Asian country of Vietnam, which had been years later North Vietnam took control of the south and
under French control for many years, hoped to gain the country was reunited as a Communist state which
independence at last. But the French had other ideas. survives to this day. According to Joseph Hellet author
Britain and the USA were also unhappy with the idea of an of the famous anti-war novel Catch-22, the Americans
independent Vietnam because they feared it could embrace brought peace to Vietnam 'in the same way Napolean
Communism, seen as the big enemy by the West at that brought peace to Europe: by losing.'
time. So when the French were defeated by the Vietnamese t
in 1954, the Americans stepped in. Vietnam was split in
two. and an anti-Communist state was formed in the
south, supported financially and militarily by the USA.
North Vietnam's ambition was to reunite the two halves
of the country, and they were aided by various groups
within South Vietnam too, who were known as the Viet
Cong. SouthVietnam needed more and more American
assistance, until the USA found itself fighting a full-scale
war in South-EastAsia. Casualties were high on both
sides, but there was no clear way to resolve the conflict.
An anti-war movement formed in the USA, mainly among

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