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A 7 page paper which examines Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor of War” and Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” as they address two sides to war, in different ways as it relates to the Vietnam War. The paper also utilizes George Herring’s “America’s Longest War.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: JR7_RAvt3.rtf
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part. From the beginning it had its troubles, and it also seemed to always exist in a realm of duality, from many perspectives. There was a duality to the nation
of Vietnam, a duality to the way America felt about and believed in, or did not believe in, the war, and a sense of duality reflected in the people. The
following paper examines different levels of duality as primarily seen through Graham Greenes "The Quiet American" and Philip Caputos "A Rumor of War." War and Duality In the
two books being examined the reader gets two very different views of the war. In Caputos book the reader experiences the duality of innocence and horror in the face of
the war. In Greenes book the duality of perceptions are reflected in two characters who go through subtle changes, but retain their inherent nature and essentially represent two sides as
it relates to interpreting war. In both books there is also the underlying reality involving the duality of the war itself as many people, both at home and in Vietnam,
were unsure if the war was even worth fighting as it involved essentially a civil war between the peoples of Vietnam, and was not really a war that could be
won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, but is essentially destroyed in terms of ever
offering hope. Caputo states the following and lays the foundation for the duality within the character: "I see the hall...Some are dancing; some are filing past a buffet...all are without
forebodings of what awaits them; fear, disfigurement, sudden death, the pain of long separation; widowhood . And I feel that I am looking at a period piece, a tableau of
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