Vietnam
Throughout both novels and the movie watched thus far, at least one or more characters live in constant struggle because of their western beliefs. In the novel Blood Brothers, by Pham Van Ky, the narrator after studying in France for ten years, is faced with returning to a community which he no longer accepts. Secondly, Jean Baptiste in the movie, Indochine, is faced with falling in love with a Vietnamese girl. Their relationship causes him to leave the French navy, an organization he had dedicated his life to. Finally, Pyle an American foreign correspondent is killed in Graham Greens novel, The Quiet American, because of his actions based on his western beliefs. Western beliefs played an important role in the lives of both the characters that have accepted them and those who were in contact with them. When the narrator in the novel Blood Brothers, returns home from studying in France for ten years, he is quickly placed in a dilemma. It is not long after his return when he starts to feel different in his community, a community where his father is the governmental leader. The narrator no longer follows the views of his father. The narrator now follows the western beliefs he has developed in France. There is a t
One must understand Fowler and his position to understand what he was doing, when he decided to help Pong in the murder of Pyle. Fowler was an English reporter in Vietnam attempting to keep an unbiased opinion toward the events in Vietnam. This bias had been overrun by his conscience. It was obvious that the French were wrong in their attempt to maintain the control of Vietnam. Fowler sympathized with the Vietnamese, Everyday the narrator lived in a constant struggle with friends and family, until he felt no choice but to leave the land in which he had been born and raised, and return to France where he was happy. This novel is an example of the contrasting beliefs of the eastern and western cultures. The ideas and beliefs were so different that it caused a son to be shunned by his friends and parents. Jean Baptiste decided that he was willing to leave his French desires and beliefs behind to follow what he thought was right. Baptiste believed that he was in love with Camille and that love was more important than anything France had to offer. It is very ironic that in Blood Brothers, the narrator, a Vietnamese man, went to France to study and felt out of place when he returned home. On the other hand, Jean Baptiste a French man, who was raised in Vietnam went to fight the Vietnamese, fell in love with a Vietnamese girl, and left behind his French beliefs. Pyle's situation was a little different; he himself did not have a problem with his beliefs, but the people involved with him did. Jean Baptiste was a member of the French navy, with all the ideals and beliefs that made him successful in the military. The beliefs of Baptiste began to change the night that he was forced to burn a boat, because it was sailing
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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