"The Sorrow Of War"

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Analysis of Bao Ninh's autobiographical novel. Summarizes the timeframe (Post American withdraw from Vietnam), plot and ideas of the novel. Psychological trauma suffered by protagonist who fought with North Vietnamese. Episodic presentation of events. Protagonist's memory of his early days in the Vietnam War Book's message that war transforms the nature of human consciousness.

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"This research examines the autobiographical novel The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, who was a North Vietnamese soldier during the Vietnam War and a ten-year veteran of the military. The research will set forth a summary of the novel and then discuss the pattern of ideas in the narrative and the means by which Ninh makes the ideas emerge, with a view toward identifying the message the author intends to convey through the work.
Opening just after the rainy season, which is also several months after the American withdrawal from Vietnam in April 1975, The Sorrow of War introduces the soldier Kien, now in his late twenties, who is participating in a missing-in-action "remains-gathering" team in a muddy jungle. Young as Kien is, he is a seasoned veteran of war action lasting some ten years, and this clean..."

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