Ideas of ‘The Quiet American’ Shades of grey No one is completely innocent of inflicting harm on another. “I told myself again I was innocent”. Indeed it is the innocent who Fowler sees as more capable of hurting others of their ignorance‚ “They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved”. Greene uses many symbols to this demonstrate these shades. Light being one‚ and the manifestation of an explosion; the Vietnamese people are ageless
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We can always speculate about the aftermath of any social issue‚ we can always judge the parents‚ society‚ the government and their economic level and we can try to blame everyone for the behavior of our youth but through “The Destructors” by Graham Greene‚ one can see the psychological impact on one’s behavior as the effects of hard experiences as well as the role of human nature negatively impact the members of the Wormsley Common Gang in the aftermath of World War II London. First of all‚ it
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Стилистический анализ текста: Graham Greene “I Spy” The text under stylistic analysis “I Spy” is written by Graham Greene in the style of fiction. It deals with author’s feelings and emotions about relations at school‚ relations in the family. The main theme of the story is how main character of the story Charlie Stowe was able to steal some of his father’s stock - a packet with cigarettes from his father’s shop‚ with the purpose to prove his classmates that he is not a little boy. The idea
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Intro about the story The Case for the Defence is a well-written thriller by Graham Greene‚ a famous English novelist‚ which deals with a strange murder trial. The defendant‚ guilty of murder of a woman and having four eye-witnesses to testify against him is thought of standing no chance of acquittal. Yet‚ a twist in the story renders the jurymen helpless and they have to acquit him for lack of evidence. In the end‚ he or his twin brother meets with a horrible death‚ having been crushed under a
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The Destructors (A Summarized Summary) By: Felix Cheung‚ Pareen Sehat‚ & Sean Stubbs What its About: In the short story‚ The Destructors‚ by Graham Greene‚ a gang of youths expresses their anger and frustration against society by destroying the last remaining house on a bombed out street. The protagonist‚ Trevor‚ or T‚ becomes the gang’s leader‚ who is fuelled by a desire to take revenge on the middle class. The previous leader of the gang‚ Blackie‚ loses his position when Trevor develops a superior
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Graham Greene: The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen 1. Describe the characters. The young woman: She had thin blonde hair and how she spoke showed that she studied in one of the best school of London. Her fiancé: He was doomed and easy to control by others. The narrator (author): He was a reflective person who analyzed different situation from what people said and expressed physically. The Japanese gentlemen: They spoke their tongue; they were always with a smile in their faces and doing a lot of
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Introduction: Graham Greene is celebrated as one of the most prevalent post-war novelists who gave Englishnovel the spiritual heights. Thus he has been classified as a modern spiritualwriter and a great literary giant. [1] As a Catholic writer‚ Greene’s artof letters cruciallydeal with the subjects of sin and spiritualityvia different themes like man’s relationship with himself‚ with society and with God. Greene‚in his novels emphatically deals with the ideology that only faith in God can save man
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The story "The Root of All Evil" by Graham Greene is an excellent moral story about the sins that can arise when people try too hard to keep secrets. Lies‚ scandals‚ and murders are all created by secretive behavior‚ leading one to believe that secrets are the root of all evil. The trouble in this story begins when a few men in the town began meeting for nightly talks‚ and the consumption of alcohol. There were a few of the gentlemen who felt that they needed to gather together secretly‚ so that
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The Quiet American: Choose a novel which explores in an effective way a theme which is important to you. A novel of which explores a certain theme‚ the abusive corruption of American power is Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”. Greene’s novel is set in the French colony‚ Vietnam‚ which is soon to be lost to the Communists. His narration and description of characters such as Alden Pyle the titular “Quiet American” of whom is proud to be American and is working for the Economic Aid Mission of which
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The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene‚ first published in United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002. The book draws on Greene ’s experiences as a war correspondent for The Times and Le Figaro in French Indochina 1951-1954. He was apparently inspired to write The Quiet American in October 1951 while driving back to Saigon from the Ben Tre province. He was accompanied by an American aid worker who lectured him
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