Similarities between Apocalypse Now and Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong(blog4)

Tim O'Brien's short story, Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong, and the 1979 film Apocalypse Now both share many similarities. First off both works took place in combat during the Vietnam war. Both Apocalypse Now and Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong have kind of bizarre scenarios. Where in Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong a non military women who is the girlfriend of a soldier is allowed to stay with her boyfriend's unit in a combat zone. And in Apocolypse Now there were a few odd situations, one case there was a general commanding soldiers to surf during a battle and in the end when it displayed colonel Kurtz made a type of cult with Vietnamese villagers, which I personally thought drifted away from the idea of war. Lastly the two display how war brings out savage like characteristics in some people. For example in Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong, Maryanne starts to lose cleanliness, covers herself in face paint, and eventually adopts a necklace containing human tounges. And in Apocalypse Now there was a scene when Tyrone Miller killed a few villagers on a boat for no reason at all and didn't have much moral concern after.