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Told the story of the "Sweetheart of Song Trahbong." Likes to stretch the truth in order to make stories more interesting.
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Died in the shit field. Good friend of Tim O' Brien.
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Blown up playing catch with Rat Kiley.
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Young girl who dies of a brain tumor. Tim O'Brien keeps her alive in his head metaphorically.
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Took handkerchief off Linda's head revealing her bald head. Similiar to Azar because they are both mean.
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Committed suicide. No one would talk to him. Best friend died in the lake.
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Brought his girlfriend, Mary Anne Bell, to Vietnam who was the sweetheart of song trahbong.
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Big dumb and strong like america. He was nice to the monks.
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He loved Martha and tried to tie her up. He is the symbol of Jesus Christ.
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Heavy Drug User, troops smoke his weed after he is dead.
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Protagonist of the story, very divided about the war. He recruits more soldiers for the war.
Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong |
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Shes the woman who retrieves bodies. Quan couldn't make love to her because she was fully commited to the war.
Novel Without A Name -Duong Thu Huong |
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Free thinkers of the village. Represent the anti-communist elements of the novel.
Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong |
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Quang's younger brother. Father convinces him to enlist even though he had a bright future.
Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong |
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In charge of where Bien was being kept. Filling Quang with a lot of communist idealogy.
Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong |
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Big man, strong man. Pretended to be crazy to get out of the war. Gets into Huc's Unit that makes caskets. Dies from Tetanus infection.
Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong |
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Quang was born in it. They ate monkey soup from it and it reminded him of Quang. Represents a life-giving force.
Novel without a name - Duong Thu Huong |
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Communist official in Quans Village. Recruited young boys to go to war.
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Young girl who loves Quan, said she would be faithful but 10 years later she is pregnant. She disgraces her family and is abandoned by them.
Novel without a name - duong thu huong |
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She is a waitress in a Chinese Restaurant. She ends up dating Mr. Cohen.
"Snow" GSSM- Robert Olen Butler |
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Comes in to get dinner for two with his son for Jewish Christmas. Tells Giau later that he was single and they end up dating.
"Snow" GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Correspondence with Mr.Cohen because he sounds like a clock. When he asks her out she is riding upon time.
"Snow" GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Falls in love with the bureaucrat. She thought he was the heart of America. Has sex with the GIs in return for apples.
"fairytale" GSSM - Robert Olen Butler |
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Heart and soul of America. Lower middle-class hard worker.
"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Very observant, caught up in the feel good stuff on TV. Assimilated very well to American culture.
"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Caught up in the ways of America. Business man, has his own cocktail food business. Very assimilated.
"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Sexual Image. She gets apples from the GI's that she sleeps with.
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They are the american couple. Their breakup is like Vinh+Gabrielle Tran's.
"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Frank fights with Vinh.
"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler |
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Old man who has dementia. Mai's grandfather, and he has forgotten all about her, but seems to remember the trips he took in his Hotchkiss, from Saigon to Hanoi.
The Trip Back-GSSM Robert Olen Butler |
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Name means harmony. He is in a quest for harmony.
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Ghost that comes to Dao. He represents conflict.
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She is the butterfly. Most beautiful girl in all of town. Always being seeked by other men, but her husband pushes them back until they get to America where he loses all his power.
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Old man, there is a nobility in his struggle. He doesn't catch a fish for 84 days and then hits the jackpot, just like his hero Joe DiMaggio.
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Young boy who used to fish with Santiago. Like the legend of the Fischer King he is going to take over as King.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Big Fish that he catches but later ate by the sharks.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Baseball player for NYY. Breaks up his bad streak of hitting. Santiago's hero.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Guardian Saint of Cuba. There is a picture of her posted on Santiago's wall. Holy symbol in the story.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Shovel-Nose Shark. They are the bottom feeders.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Mako Shark. They are the noble sharks and they often hunt alone.
Old Man - Ernest Hemingway
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Santiago's Dream. Noble strong creatures like him and the Mako sharks.
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Small bird who lands on his boat. Goes toward land and gets eaten by hawks. That foreshadows the shark eating the marlin.
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He has reached and gone too far. Man trying to get more than he could possibly bargain for.
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