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A 3 page paper which examines the theme of blind ignorance in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in Indochina, employing its characters less as individuals than as representatives of their nations or political factions" (Davis). It is clearly a novel of war, but also, in the "representatives"
one can see a novel of ideals and ideology that is often wrong. In essence, there is much in the novel that speaks of an ignorance, a blind ignorance, that
never allows for the truth and horrors of war to be seen. With so much information spewed concerning one side or the other in terms of who is right and
who is wrong, the real suffering is never acknowledged. The following paper examines this theme in Grahams novel that is still clearly a reality today in the face of the
War in Iraq. The Quiet American by Graham Greene It is perhaps interesting, and informative, to first note that Graham Greene
notes that when his novel first came out he was "condemned" for accusing his "best friends (the Americans) of murder" (Greene [1]). He illustrates that regardless of all the attacks,
"I still retain the sharp image of the dead child couched in the ditch beside his dead mother. The very neatness of their bullet wounds made their death more disturbing
than the indiscriminate massacre in the canals around. (Greene [1]). In so many ways this illustrates the reality of war that always steps outside the boundaries of ideologies as they
involve the various parties or nations involved. Many could argue that the book is intended to illustrate the ignorance of the Americans,
or as one author notes, "The thesis is quite simply that America is a crassly materialistic and innocent nation with no understanding of other peoples" (Davis). Davis argues that the
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