Both Kien and Jimmy Cross‚ used their love back home as a way to escape from the horrors of war. Even though they were from different sides of the world‚ Kien and Cross shared similar experiences during the war. Both found themselves fighting with the same motivation‚ using their love to keep them alive and to survive until the end of war. For one of them‚ this motivation was a major distraction‚ but for the other it is the only thing that kept him alive. In the Sorrow of War‚ Kien is the
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individual Vietnamese soldier through use of a series of reminiscences or flashbacks‚ jumping backwards and forwards in time between the events most salient in memory‚ events which take on a different theme each time they are examined. His main protagonist Kien‚ who is basically Bao himself‚ looks back not just at his ten years at war‚ but at his final days at school‚ his work with an MIA team after the war‚ the slow disintegration of his life since‚ and the solace he finds in his writing. In this review
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author of The Sorrow of War‚ Bao Ninh‚ focuses his writing on such sacrifices made in the face of war and the impression it left on the individual to shine a light on how different situations are dealt with by soldiers and veterans. He does so through Kien‚ a forty-year old veteran‚ demonstrating how upon the beginning of his service‚ the sacrifices made by his comrades‚ leave him feeling guilty and unworthy‚ considering how he had little intention to live in the first place. As the novel progresses
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THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION TO AIR POLLUTION IN HO CHI MINH CITY Ho Chi Minh City‚ 24 Nov‚ 2012 Lecturer: Vo Duc Hoang Vu Students: Nguyen Thi Ngoc Chau 1001017412 Le Thi Thuy Hong 1001017456 Nguyen Pham Dieu Linh 1001017479 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: 1 I- INDUSTRIALIZATION IN HO CHI MINH CITY: 1 1. Industrialization definition: 1 2. Industrialization growth in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC): 1 II- AIR POLLUTION IN HO CHI MINH CITY: 2 1. Air pollution definition: 2 2. Air pollution present
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observing every detail to adjust culturally and economically to the American life‚ the young protagonist has a sense of fear and shame. The author shows a descriptive part when the young refugee is constantly asked to reminisce his story more than once (Nguyen 26). Reminiscing the past‚ made the protagonist reencounter more drama of his “escape”‚ which made it more complex for him to psychologically “forget” and move forward. Processing the American lifestyle‚ through his “sponsor” and the sponsor’s partner
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Educational Program ------------------------------- PROJECT Topic: Hanoi students’ response towards Group 8 : ĐẶNG HOÀI NAM NGUYỄN THỊ MỸ PHƯƠNG NGUYỄN THỊ THẢO NGUYÊN Class : Advanced Accounting – Intake 53 Instructor : M.A Tran Thi Thu Trang Cohabitation Hanoi - 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. LITERATURE REVIEW
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When the B-52’s attacked‚ Kien made the mistake of taking the woman out of her house and trying to get both of them safely to a shelter. He also used a trolley as a mental marker of where her house was so he would be able to find her after. Later on after the attack was over‚ Kien went to help others who were hurt and told the woman to go and he would meet her at her home. After all that Kien realized and mournfully regretted everything he had done. All in all Kien regretted leaving the woman to
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Nicholas Allen History 122-005 March 30‚ 2016 Paper 3 In the book The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh‚ he tells the reader about his experiences in the Vietnam War. First‚ Ninh shows how the Vietnam War impacted the Vietnamese soldiers and the traumatic experiences and emotion hardships they had to go through. Secondly‚ the Americans also had traumatic experiences like the Vietnamese soldiers but the American soldiers had different traumatic events that messed with there emotions. Finally‚ the Vietnamese
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traumatic event. In the novel The Sorrow of War‚ by Bao Ninh‚ the narrator tells the story of Kien‚ a North-Vietnamese veteran who survived the war against all odds. While the omniscient narrator remains unstated‚ Bao Ninh alludes that Kien and the narrator have PTSD. After the war‚ Kien loses everything because he cannot cope with his past; the terrible things he saw or the horrific crimes he committed in the war. Kien finds solace in writing‚ but the relief soon fades and he loses his childhood love‚ Phuong
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