Comparing the different texts of the war has changed the way I see it is dangerous to read the newspaper

because of how each piece uses similar literary techniques, while still being unique. In all of the poems,

imagery was used to starkly contrast any memories or descriptions of war with everyday life. In it is

dangerous to read the newspaper this was especially apparent in many different stanzas, while the

message or plotline was still different to the other two. Furthermore, each piece had its own perspective

from which it was written; a soldier, a family, and a collection of people affected by the war in various

ways. However, each one presented different challenges and a new way of showing the horrors of the

Vietnam war, and a slightly different way of evoking emotion from the reader. For example, in kissing

in Vietnamese, the way that the grandmother shows affection towards her grandchild makes the reader

sympathetic, and in it is dangerous to read the newspaper, the effect is still there, but is done without the

deeper connection the reader makes with the characters.