As it enlightened the true nature of Vietnam War and the effect it has on its victims, our interactive oral enriched us with the grandeur of different cultural topics. The themes of collectivism, individualism, family, sacrifice, and obligation were never more prevalent in any of our past interactive orals than in this one. While each individual experiences theses themes in a different way, there needed to be synergistic understanding of Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind. The discussion of time and setting broadened the knowledge of Vietnam and its new regimes during Huong’s life. Landowners were punished, and communism blared the nation with its nobles and peasants. While the novel’s main character, Hang, bleakly portrayed the effects
