Problem
What would be a good thesis for this prompt?
"Stella Pope Duarte's novel Let their Spirits Dance, is an attempt to commemorate the many Chicano/Latino lives that were lost during the Viet Nam War. Clearly, Duarte believes that war brings nothing but destruction to the soldiers themselves, the families back home, and the landscape in which it touches. No one is truly a "winner." Quite the opposite, she makes a compelling case that everyone involved loses. Let their Spirits Dance centers on the death of a young Chicano from Arizona, Sgt. Jesse Ramírez, who was killed while in battle during the Tet offensive-known as the largest war campaign launched against the military and civilians in South Vietnam-in 1968.
By 1970 we were ready to protest the war in the biggest demonstration in the history of Aztlan, marching together, thousands of us, protesting the war, all the way to Laguna Park in East L.A. and the death of the L.A. Times reporter Ruben Salazar (170).Why were Chicanos protesting the War? Why did Chicanos soldiers closely identify with the Vietnamese? What did Vietnam ultimately teach the Chicano community?"