The theme of war in the novel "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene
The theme of war.
The novel ‘The Quiet American’ written by Graham Greene is the war novel. Saigon, 1952, is a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Alden Pyle represents the American force in Vietnam. As he claims he came to Vietnam as a member of American Mission in order to help Vietnamese people. Pyle is a brilliant graduate of Harvard University. He has studied theories of government and society, and is particularly devoted to a writer named York Harding. Pyle has read Harding's numerous books many times and has adopted Harding's thinking as his own. Harding wrote about the third force and Pyle formed one – a shoddy little bandit with two thousand men. He supplied General The with plastic to make bombs, because they wanted to because they wanted to establish democracy in Vietnam. The soldiers were sure, that they weren’t fighting a colonial war. It wasn’t their war, they were just professionals: they had on go on fighting, till the politicians told them to stop. And probably the politicians would get together and agree to the same peace, that they could had had at the beginning, making the nonsense of all these years. Graham Greene is against the war. His attitude to the war, he expressed through Fowler. We remember the episode when Fowler was crossing the canal which had been full of bodies, which reminded Fowler of an Irish stew containing too much meat. The bodies overlapped: one head, seal-grey, stuck up out of the water like a buoy. There was no blood: it had flowed away a long time ago. And Fowler took his eyes away; he
The novel ‘The Quiet American’ written by Graham Greene is the war novel. Saigon, 1952, is a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Alden Pyle represents the American force in Vietnam. As he claims he came to Vietnam as a member of American Mission in order to help Vietnamese people. Pyle is a brilliant graduate of Harvard University. He has studied theories of government and society, and is particularly devoted to a writer named York Harding. Pyle has read Harding's numerous books many times and has adopted Harding's thinking as his own. Harding wrote about the third force and Pyle formed one – a shoddy little bandit with two thousand men. He supplied General The with plastic to make bombs, because they wanted to because they wanted to establish democracy in Vietnam. The soldiers were sure, that they weren’t fighting a colonial war. It wasn’t their war, they were just professionals: they had on go on fighting, till the politicians told them to stop. And probably the politicians would get together and agree to the same peace, that they could had had at the beginning, making the nonsense of all these years. Graham Greene is against the war. His attitude to the war, he expressed through Fowler. We remember the episode when Fowler was crossing the canal which had been full of bodies, which reminded Fowler of an Irish stew containing too much meat. The bodies overlapped: one head, seal-grey, stuck up out of the water like a buoy. There was no blood: it had flowed away a long time ago. And Fowler took his eyes away; he