Question

The Vietnam War was the first one watched by Americans on television. How did this viewing of the war in their living rooms most clearly affected modern literature in which of the following ways? Select all that apply.

The literature focused on the realities of war.

Since people saw the war all the time, the literature focused on happy things.

It was written with a purpose to actually end the war.

The author's were all actual Vietnam veterans.

A romantic tone was taken to counteract the grim realities people saw everyday.

Answer 1

The correct answers are:

The literature focused on the realities of war.

It was written with a purpose to actually end the war.

Explanation: With the upset caused by the Vietnam War in the early '60s, more voices for change were heard. Major writers included such poets and thinkers as Denise Levertov, David Lance Goines, and Muriel Rukeyser. But they also included novelists who did not write against the war but who were still major literary lights, such as John Updike. Writers of the Vietnam War era tended to focus on the rage and sadness of war, violence, injustice, morality and evil, coming of age, the war itself.

Answer 2

The answer is third and the last one. Vietnam did not turn into an issue on everyone's mind on American TV until 1965, however, it was a dubious one from the time that U.S. military faculty started to assume a noteworthy part in the battle in the mid-1960s. Authorities of both the U.S. also, South Vietnamese governments were to a great degree worried about the scope of the war.