the quiet american
Introduction of the Novel
Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American in 1955. The book is a novel based on Greene's experience traveling and reporting on the war which the Vietnam were waging against the French colonial army in Vietnam in the early 1950's. (Donaghy,1983)
The Quiet American
Summary
Vietnam is only understood by living there, it is very beautiful until something happens that you might have expected to happen. Not many care about the death of a US citizen for they are causing most of the trouble there. As we see Thomas Fowler(reporter for The Time Sun newspaper) is meeting up with Pyle (working for the American economic mission), and as they meet, Pyle asks him about his opinion towards the country, and Fowler says that he is not bias to anything or any party, and that he is neutral.
Once Pyle laid eyes on Phuong (Thomas's girlfriend). Thomas realized that saving a country and a woman is the same to Pyle. Corruption, mendacity, and plan on north attacking them are the recent news for Thomas, and he also got asked to go back to London. He wants to go to (Phat Diem), but the place is very dangerous, and conspiracies are happening everywhere as seen by him. Two years pass and it is their anniversary, also realizing that he is too old for Phuong's games and cuddles. Phuong introduces herself to Pyle when they first meet, and that her name means (Phoenix), but he thought that her name meant a rose, like the rose upon her hair. Thomas explains to Pyle, that unlike what he thinks of Phuong, he is wrong and that she used to be a taxi dancer to provide for her and her sister after their father passed away, and it took him six months to get a first date with her. In between all this praise of Phuong, Pyle falls in love with her in a discreet way. As Thomas goes to Phat Diem with a patrol, once they find a man in a boat that he recognizes and that for don’t shoot him knowing it is Pyle, looking lost. While they are at the bunker and get attacked, he
Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American in 1955. The book is a novel based on Greene's experience traveling and reporting on the war which the Vietnam were waging against the French colonial army in Vietnam in the early 1950's. (Donaghy,1983)
The Quiet American
Summary
Vietnam is only understood by living there, it is very beautiful until something happens that you might have expected to happen. Not many care about the death of a US citizen for they are causing most of the trouble there. As we see Thomas Fowler(reporter for The Time Sun newspaper) is meeting up with Pyle (working for the American economic mission), and as they meet, Pyle asks him about his opinion towards the country, and Fowler says that he is not bias to anything or any party, and that he is neutral.
Once Pyle laid eyes on Phuong (Thomas's girlfriend). Thomas realized that saving a country and a woman is the same to Pyle. Corruption, mendacity, and plan on north attacking them are the recent news for Thomas, and he also got asked to go back to London. He wants to go to (Phat Diem), but the place is very dangerous, and conspiracies are happening everywhere as seen by him. Two years pass and it is their anniversary, also realizing that he is too old for Phuong's games and cuddles. Phuong introduces herself to Pyle when they first meet, and that her name means (Phoenix), but he thought that her name meant a rose, like the rose upon her hair. Thomas explains to Pyle, that unlike what he thinks of Phuong, he is wrong and that she used to be a taxi dancer to provide for her and her sister after their father passed away, and it took him six months to get a first date with her. In between all this praise of Phuong, Pyle falls in love with her in a discreet way. As Thomas goes to Phat Diem with a patrol, once they find a man in a boat that he recognizes and that for don’t shoot him knowing it is Pyle, looking lost. While they are at the bunker and get attacked, he