Chapter 2

• He was hesitant at first but he decided to go anyway. He felt like a man making "his first visit  to a whorehouse".
• The influence of the conversation that the students had is that it revealed the youth's perspective on the up coming war with the Koreans. It also reveals the common street's point of view on communism. From the talk one can deduce that a lot of propaganda has been carried out; usage of the word "pussy" and "softies" to describe men who are reluctant on going to the war  shows that.