The Nonlinear Structure of The Sorrow of War and its Distortion of Kien and Phuong’s Relationship to Create Character Depth to Kien Bao Ninh is a Vietnamese war veteran and the author of what is said to be "one of the most moving war novels of all time" (Gareth Smith)‚ The Sorrow of War. In the epic tale‚ Bao tells the story of Kien in a nonlinear narrative‚ weaving in and out of stories of young love and war‚ each failing to complete its own objectives: to come home and live in peace with those
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Vietnam and in the Vietnam war‚ I came to realize the unvoiced importance of nationalism in the times of need. Throughout the book‚ The Sorrow Of War‚ and history itself‚ nationalism seemed to always be victimized in the most grotesque of situations. Women do not receive the recognition they deserve for the sacrifices they had made‚ alongside with men‚ to their families and country. In Vietnam‚ at a time of peace‚ women had specific roles in society‚ but at a time of war‚ gender barriers seem to collapse
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The Sorrow of War Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War is a novel that is a personal view of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier. Like the American novel “The things they carried”‚ this novel brings about the effects of war on people‚ and especially how it defeats the human capacity for things such as love and hope. Bao Ninh offers this realistic picture of the Vietnam War’s impact on the individual Vietnamese soldier through use of a series of reminiscences or flashbacks‚ jumping
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It is present that many people who have partaken in war have experiences some form of trauma within war. This idea is presented by the novelist Bao Ninh in his book The Sorrow of War. Ninh’s novel follows the life of the main character Kien‚ as he experiences battling for the North Vietnamese army in the Vietnam War. Kien experiences many instances of trauma and brutality found within war. In his novel‚ The Sorrow of War‚ Bao Ninh uses Kien’s wartime experiences-like: battling during the Tet Offensive
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The experience of war brings out the moralities of war and the tragedies of loss and death. Bao Ninh portrays these realizations and tragedies throughout his novel The Sorrow of War. The stories told follow the central character Kien whose story shows the moralities of war and tragedies of loss and death. Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War is a novel depicts the horrors that are a result of war. Kien is the main character whose life is used to depict these horrors; a soldier who’s lost all his comrades
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different stages of war life provide different levels of interpretation to the loses of close ones; the more one matures‚ the more one’s interpretations diverge from their first impressions. Former North Vietnam soldier and 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
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is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war‚” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 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
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Think about tone‚ literary structure‚ specific examples + quotes The Sorrow of War is a semi-autobiographical novel by Bao Ninh‚ in which he implements a non-linear narrative structure to tell his story of his survival from the horrible trenches of the Vietnam War. This book is written in a stream of consciousness with frequent shifts of narrative point of views juxtaposed with descriptions of recent events and of the distant past. Plautus‚ a famous Roman playwright of the old Latin period once
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Ninh’s The Sorrow of War portrays the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to the reader Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder consumes a person’s life after a traumatic event. The symptoms of PTSD vary from person to person but often include reliving the event through intrusive flashbacks‚ and nightmares. The physical symptoms include pounding heart‚ rapid breathing‚ nausea‚ and sweating‚ they occur when a trigger reminds the victim of the traumatic event. In the novel The Sorrow of War‚ by Bao Ninh
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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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