Character Essay
“We’re goin’ to Nam’ boys!” said Morris’s friend Ivan. Since they were young, Ivan and Morris started a friend group with two other boys, then all of the sudden, one was drafted. The main character Morris, in Chris Lynch’s I, Pledge Allegiance, joined the navy as a pact with his friends. Morris has a specific look to him. Morris, is, of course, a guy with medium length black hair, dark green eyes, nineteen years old, tall, and extremely intelligent. I know that he is nineteen years old because he and his friends have been eligible for the draft for one year, I know that he has medium length black hair because there is a picture of him on the cover of the book and it looks like medium length, not too long, not too short. Next, my guess is that he has green eyes because that is how it appears on the cover, and he looks taller on the cover also.
Morris is very polite, especially speaking that he had let a new kid into the group after he was being bullied. He is also pretty nervous and jumpy. I know this because when he went to Vietnam, he was always…show more content… Having no idea what was in store for him, he started the voyage to Vietnam. All of his friends had joined different branches of the military, and Morris, of course, joined the navy. After his first battle, with planes flying so low to the ground that you could touch them and bullets flying everywhere, the USS Boston was decommissioned and brought home to be patched up, but some of the sailors, including Morris, were not done with their naval time. Some went back to the Boston, and others went to different ships, but Morris went to a battleship that floated up the streams to deliver troops to the front lines. On that ship, everyone had two jobs, one during battle, which happened almost every minute, and one-off battle. For the rest of his time in the navy, Morris stayed on that ship and eventually came
