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12 pages in length. Ninh's The Sorrow of War, Lam's Perfume Dreams and Mason's In Country are drawn together by the single thread of war, yet their unique perspectives take readers on three distinct journeys that cultivate entirely distinctive impressions. For a war whose perspective is typically that of a national component, the extent to which each of these three stories provides an unadulterated view of how the war impact one individual at a time serve to humanize the experience quite a bit more. No additional sources cited.
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war, yet their unique perspectives take readers on three distinct journeys that cultivate entirely distinctive impressions. For a war whose perspective is typically that of a national component, the
extent to which each of these three stories provides an unadulterated view of how the war impact one individual at a time serve to humanize the experience quite a bit
more. Each story provides a unique insight into the political and social struggles that exist between and among different cultures, different genders and the oft-violent means by which these
differences are addressed; while they all approach this objective in three unique ways, they still manage to tie together the common denominator of self-discovery amidst tragedy that has a tendency
to soften even the harshest images. SECTION I II. THE SORROW OF WAR A great deal of retrospective enlightenment occurs as Kien
trades off with facing and escaping death. Respective to the central character, this tragic hero comes to various conclusions with regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality
and, perhaps above all, the concept of his own mortality. Inasmuch as Kien derives his conclusions from the heinous encounters he endures, one can readily argue how the expectations
of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chaos and the disassociation he must maintain in order to protect his sanity. In the end, Kien
is only a hero to the extent that he was a soldier protecting his country; when it comes to his being a hero in a more holistic sense, he could
never reconcile this reality in his own head. Inasmuch as the storys fundamental purpose is to expose and delve deeply into humanitys true virtues of courage, strength and physical
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