Yusef and Turner

One difference that I noticed between Turner and Yusef's writings is that Yusef is very reflective and in the past while Turner writes about the present moment. In "Facing it" Yusef talks about what the current situation reminds him of his experiences in Vietnam, and in "Camouflaging the Chimera" he talks about what they had to do at war. On the other hand, Turner writes in the moment, as if it we were sitting behind a glass window watching the scene as he narrates. He also gives the perspective of many different people  in his stories so that we get to see the actual scene and not only what either the soldiers or the civilians see. He also includes a lot of cultural aspects to really represent the native people. This is different from most o f the other works that we have read or watched because they usually only give the perspective of the soldiers and make the natives seam completely alien to themselves. He does a really good job avoiding having a single story. A similarity that I noticed in Turner's writings to a lot of the other works is how he uses vulgarity and crudeness at times when talking about the war which just further illustrates how truly relevant it is to war. One last difference that I noticed between Turner and Yusef's writing is that Tuner is a lot more descriptive. Yusef really describes the general situation of what was happening in the scene or in his memories while Turner really goes into detail with all of his stories. Turner really sets the scene for you and gives you a lot of description of situation; he describes in "R&R" a thought or memory to be hidden in the "deep in the landscape of the brain"  which gives you extreme detail and you can almost feel what his words describe. This is very different from Yusef that is quite vague in his descriptions.