The Quiet American - Blog # 2

Please respond to the following prompts in complete sentences.  Use quotes when required.


Ch. I
1.  Who is Pascal?  Why are his quotes used and how does he connect to this text?

2.  What is engage?


3.  What major event has happened without it being mentioned in Part Three, Ch. 1?

Ch. II
4.  What is the 3rd Force in Ch. 2?  Use a quote as support.

5.  Why are happy memories the worst?  Use a quote as support.

Ch. III
6.  Give 3 solid examples of American criticism from this chapter.

Ch. IV
7.  What eventually took Fowler's mind off Pyle and Phuong? Is this what war does for a population?

Ch. V
8. What deeply bothers Trouin about napalm?  What is napalm?  Use a quote as support.

9.  Compare Ch. V to All Quiet on the Western Front.  1 paragraph.

10.  Are only the French and Americans guilty in this war?

1984 - Blog # 1

Please respond to the following prompts in complete sentences.  Use quotes when stipulated.

1.   How is Winston preparing for Hate Week at work?

2.  Who vanishes?  Is this a surprise? Use a quote as support. 

3.  Compare Julia's interests with Mersault's.  How are they similar?  What do they both value?

4.  What does Julia want to do during the Two Minutes of Hate?

5.  What does O'Brien think is ingenious about the new Newspeak dictionary?  What do you think about this development?  Would it help make language acquisition easier?  

6.  What does Winston believe the proles have retained, but Party members have lost? Use a quote as support.

7.   In Winston’s mind, what would prove he had betrayed Julia?

8.  What privilege is reserved for Party members?  In Communism, did inner party members have special benefits as well?  Look into it if need be, and give a specific example.

9.  Why will the Brotherhood never be destroyed?  Do you think it is enough to keep it intact?  Why or why not?

The Quiet American Blog # 1

Please respond to the following prompts in complete sentences.  Be specific and use concrete examples from the text. 

Part Two, Ch. 3, 2

Identify the following characters and explain their connection to the plotline. 

Mr. Chou

Dominguez

Mr. Heng

1.  What, and more importantly, does Mr. Heng show Fowler?  What do you think it is?

2.  To me, Fowler seems a bit naïve here, not Pyle, why would you agree or disagree?

Part Two, Ch. 3, 3

1.  Does Fowler appreciate his own guilt or despise it?  Where do you think it comes from?  You might need to look into Graham Greene for your answer.

2.  Fowler mutters to himself for Pyle to go away because “he doesn’t want to be saved.”  How might this be symbolic of the larger political arena?

3.  Fowler calls love a “western word” used “to cover up an obsession with one woman.”  How might Phuong look at love differently?  How about Pyle?

4.  Sometimes I find myself annoyed with Phuong and her utter passivity.  Why has Green constructed her thus?  Does it leave him open to criticism?  Is it an accurate albeit antiquated or unPC view of Asian women?  Or is it simply symbolic of Vietnam itself?

5.  Why does Fowler wish Pyle had a few “bad motives”?  Why does he thinkt he same would be good for America?

6.  What three things does Fowler tell Pyle to go play with?  He uses the verb play?  How does this choice of diction have great impact on the conclusion of Part Two