... only way to escape. One soldier in particular named Paul Berlin often thought about his life prior to Vietnam in the United States. He becomes fed up with all the evil situations he has been in during the war so he begins to dream his way out of the war. The mere possibility of reaching Paris is good enough for him ... into the blue sky: "I imagined the children floating, their dresses ballooning out around them as the wind ruffled their hair across their faces."" The metaphor of flying and floating are symbols of being free and living up to your potential as the American children did. ...

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