A Boat to Nowhere Social Sensitivity

Maureen Crane Wartski
This Study Guide consists of approximately 15 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Boat to Nowhere.

A Boat to Nowhere Social Sensitivity

Maureen Crane Wartski
This Study Guide consists of approximately 15 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Boat to Nowhere.
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Anyone reading this book will want to go beyond Dick Teicher's single map to an atlas that puts Vietnam in a larger geographical context—and then on to a source that explains the War. The first is the shorter task. Although Wart2840 A Boat to Nowhere ski has always been consistently antiwar, she is writing in 1980 not of war but of its aftermath; her political stance is not obvious, even though she portrays the post-1975 Communist regime as evil and repressive, a judgment that history confirms. But young readers will want more factual knowledge of the causes and events in a war that absorbed the major world powers for thirty years (1945-1975) and precipitated Boat People—knowledge beyond what they get from intentionally biased modern films and media events— so that they can make up their own minds about the issues that put...

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This section contains 361 words
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