The Character of Kien in The Sorrow of War

Family life is very important for Vietnamese people. Families respect their ancestors, their present relatives, and future generations. In Vietnamese families, my son respects their father. Everyone respects the dead and believes in the importance of properly burying the dead. Family survival and honor depend on these beliefs. During the war, Keen lost these values: his father was not properly respected, and the deceased was not properly buried nor even forgotten.

"Sorrow of war" did not follow a straight line. Instead, the story obeys Kien's random, often fantastic image of war zeal and nightmare memory. Keen wrote as if he had digged him for a long time. "All pages resurrected the story of death one after another and gradually returned these stories to the jungle of the original war and quietly reminded of the memories of his horrible war." He began his postwar duties It was. A trip to the past. MIA's body collector is named "Screaming Soul Valley". This is the place where Keane fought desperate ARVN when Keane retreated in the south a few years ago. The wreckage of this terrible conflict is yet to be buried. Keen's image is sharp and powerful, porn is strong. "Crow has lost his face, his mouth is full of dirty and rotten leaves, the holes in his eyes are recessed.

Ninh's novel jumps between the war strikes back with the childhood lover Phuong and Kien's love in particular. Nin uses it as a metaphor for giving the people of Vietnam the effect of war on the iterative theme of loving Kien, or losing love. The original title of the novel is actually the fate of love. Keen compares this war with the soldier's love. "Sorrow of a soldier 's war is just as strange as love' s sorrow, it is a sort of nostalgia, it is a kind of sorrow, loss, pain brings people back to the past '( Ninh, 94). Kien noticed that he remembered his innocent love for Phuong well. The end of the novel

Among nonlinear reminiscences, the hero Kien reviews his time in the Vietnam War, his memory before the war, and the influence of war on his postwar life. It explains the death of many soldiers in Keen, the experience of his death, and the strangeness of the battle over the years to not know how to cope back to daily life. Since there were many jumps in the hero's timeline, I felt that this book was a bit confusing at the beginning. Although nothing is told in order, it may be a bit confusing, but I think this is to explain the difficulty of mixing veterans and flashbacks in a normal life . This book really reminds me of my own country, America. It is not enough for veterans returning with physical or psychological trauma, or both.