The Sympathizer is a novel which centres on a Vietnamese double agent whose name is never revealed to the reader. The story begins in Vietnam, where The Narrator, The General’s family and Bon’s family are all escaping the newly communist Saigon. Their journey is a tough one, though, as Bon’s family is killed before the plane even takes off and the various high ranking military officers have their souls crushed by ungrateful refugees’ jeers. Once the right wing Vietnamese get to America, they are shocked by the indecent customs practised by Americans, and the newfound poverty which they find themselves thrust into. They are also suspicious of a rat in their system and thus they instruct the narrator to kill the crapulent major, an innocent man
