By Gerard Chretien English:Vietnam Prof: Morgan Shulz 2002 Insight to Quiet American For those who haven’t read the book‚ its both an odd love story and a metaphor for American involvement in Vietnam. The hero‚ Fowler is a washed up‚ middle aged‚ English war correspondent‚ content with his opium pipe and his Vietnamese mistress‚ Phuong. His world is gradually disrupted by the arrival of an American covert operative named Pyle who is both a zealous ideologue and naïve optimists. Things
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The imaginative journey is one in which we escape reality and are invited to acknowledge a new reality within the realms of the imagination. These journeys offer change and discovery providing valuable insight into ones past‚ present and future. Coleridge’s poems‚ "This Limetree Bower My Prison" and "Frost at Midnight" take the reader on an imaginative journey with the character through various forms of imagery placing a clear image in the readers mind. The book cover for "The Ivory Trail" by Victor
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story‚ especially between Fowler and Pyle. Fowler is also used as a metaphor to describe the character. The word foul is relatively similar to his last name and connections can be made about the character’s actions in the book. Alden Pyle is the "quiet American" of the title. Pyle is thoughtful‚ soft-spoken‚ intellectual‚ serious‚ and idealistic. He comes from a privileged East Coast background. His father is a renowned professor of underwater erosion who has appeared on the cover of Time magazine; his
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YEAR 11 ENGLISH SAC Creating and Presenting: Imaginative Writing Semester One 2015 This SAC will be held over 2 lessons‚ as scheduled by your teacher. You must select one of the prompts provided below. You may bring in a brief outline or plan of your writing (~50 words). You are not permitted to bring in essay drafts and you are not permitted to submit drafts to your teacher prior to the SAC. You may use a dictionary‚ but not a thesaurus. You must bring in your completed Statement of Explanation
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Year 11 CONTEXT STUDY- IDENTITY & BELONGING Boy Statement of Intention – Imaginative Tiana Tatlow For this folio piece I have chosen to communicate in the form of a Expository essay and the prompt I am responding to is: Identity is never static. This particular form complements my purpose and audience due to a personal connection which enables them to understand and relate to the prompt themselves. This writing piece is aimed primarily at kids who have just began high school‚ to show that there
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Mor T Faye Hist 304: The US and The Vietnam War Prof. Nolan Spring 2013 The Quiet American: A political warning by Graham Greene The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a novel that depicts a love triangle between a British journalist‚ an American secret agent and a Vietnamese girl in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It came out in the mid fifties when the American government was not directly involved in the War. The novel generated critics from both sides of the spectrum such as Walter
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Glossy‚ lifeless flakes drifted down‚ glistening in the bright light of the harvest moon. The sheer darkness overpowered by the scented white puff of the winter snow. I emerged‚ dreary from the recent routine sleepless night. My displacement only heightened by rejection and segregation affiliated by my isolation. My only loyalty was attached to the abandoned‚ out-casted convenience store‚ disconnected from the community‚ the place I called home for the past 6 months. I cherished the indifference
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The theme of guilt: Enduring Love‚ Quiet American Before starting my essay‚ I would like to share an extract from an article which is related my topic. I think it is better to start scientific definition of my main argument "Guilt" as a moral concept. In this article‚ shame and guilt are being discussed and I am going to connect with the characters of the books I am going to write about them. “Analyses of personal shame and guilt experiences provided
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Two sisters‚ Lexus and Mazda‚ once lived in not-quite-so-ancient Japan. They grew up‚ played games‚ and attended school together. After graduating from high school‚ the sisters moved to Tokyo in pursuit of college education. Even though they shared their lives and the two-room apartment with each other‚ Mazda studied interior design while Lexus took up spiritual practices. To-riririri-riiing. Ririri-riiing. Ririri-riiing. Ririri-riiing. Ririri-ri- "Hello‚ you have reached the Subaru residence
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English Discussion Discussion Topic: Imaginative journeys are exciting and potentially dangerous. They can take you to exotic and mysterious places‚ where if you are perceptive‚ you can grow in maturity and wisdom. This is a true statement that can only be discussed fully with reference to The Time Machine. The imagined world in the text is placed into the future. It is a vision of a troubled future. A dystopia inhabited by Eloi and Morlocks. The Eloi are a beautiful‚ friendly and fragile race
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