In the novel The Sorrow of War a soldier named Kien seems to have a never-ending source of luck. He is the only one who survives in combat while, his comrades die. The novel commences with Kien riding in a truck full of dead bodies of soldiers that perished in the Jungle of Screaming Souls. It was here where Kien’s first team the 27th Battalion was eliminated except for him. In this scene there are flashbacks that tie together the novel. The chronological order of the novel is hard to comprehend; the novel goes back and forth between stories. The love affair between Kien and Phuong is the story that the readers follows. Kien constantly references her at the commencement of the novel, albeit it is not until the end where the largest events in
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She was forced to turn to desperate measures in order to survive she had to turn to prostitution many other women living in Vietnam suffered the same fate as her. To earn enough cash to eat these women had to become sexual objects that the men desired. Kien saves her from being raped and in return she offers him the only thing she has her body. “... she added stepping out of her skirt slowly. She continued to undress for him ending by pulling her blouse slightly over her head” (72). Bao Ninh uses this specific female character to demonstrate that women were not seen as human beings with feelings. To the soldiers the women were simply objects that were there to fulfill their …show more content…
The Green Coffee Cup Girl demonstrated that women were seen as objects of desire rather than human being with feelings. The mute girl in the attic was a representation of the silence of war. Hoa was a symbol of the sacrifices that are made in war. The main female character Phuong in the novel The Sorrow of War demonstrates the tragedies that occur in war. At this point of the essay you should have a better idea of what the women in the novel symbolized. Does it change your perspective on the novel? Do you now have a better understanding of the events that take place throughout the novel? If you were to read the novel again would you interpret it in a different
She was forced to turn to desperate measures in order to survive she had to turn to prostitution many other women living in Vietnam suffered the same fate as her. To earn enough cash to eat these women had to become sexual objects that the men desired. Kien saves her from being raped and in return she offers him the only thing she has her body. “... she added stepping out of her skirt slowly. She continued to undress for him ending by pulling her blouse slightly over her head” (72). Bao Ninh uses this specific female character to demonstrate that women were not seen as human beings with feelings. To the soldiers the women were simply objects that were there to fulfill their …show more content…
The Green Coffee Cup Girl demonstrated that women were seen as objects of desire rather than human being with feelings. The mute girl in the attic was a representation of the silence of war. Hoa was a symbol of the sacrifices that are made in war. The main female character Phuong in the novel The Sorrow of War demonstrates the tragedies that occur in war. At this point of the essay you should have a better idea of what the women in the novel symbolized. Does it change your perspective on the novel? Do you now have a better understanding of the events that take place throughout the novel? If you were to read the novel again would you interpret it in a different