Quiet American Pong Quotes

Finny breaking his leg caused him to change. In the beginning of the book, Fin always wanted to be active and even created a new game called blitzball, but he did not care about his academics. “In addition to my own work, I was dividing my time between tutoring Finny in studies and being tutored by him in sports.” (P. 63) Before the accident, Finny didn’t worry about studying and school, he just wanted to play sports, and get his best friend to play sports, so the boys tutored each other. After the accident, Finny became someone who tried to hide the truth with excuses to make himself feel better. “I’ll hate it everywhere if I’m not in this war! Why do you think I kept saying there wasn’t any war all winter?” (P. 190) Fin said the war wasn’t

“Paul Fisher! Have you ever played anything but goal? Get in there for Tino. Play the center forward.” Even though Paul Fisher ,the new kid on the soccer team, has never played but goalie, he knew that he wasn’t going to give up that easily. Paul gave soccer the best he had and eventually was known for his mighty and braveness. While other player on or off the field had good or bad sportsmanship, Paul had one of the most memorable efforts to the team. In the novel ,Tangerine, characters demonstrate both good and bad sportsmanship on and off the playing field.

In The Quiet American, Phuong’s character is seen but not heard. Unlike Adah, it is unknown if she had a supportive father in her life. At the start of the novel, Phuong is introduced as Thomas Fowler’s lover; an English reporter living in Vietnam. “I shut my eyes and she was again what she used to be: she was the his of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest” (Greene 4). In this quote Phuong is being reduced to the sexual pleasure she once gave Thomas Fowler.

Ha’s mother is grieving the disappearance of her husband and the fall of Vietnam to Communism. The fallout of the Vietnam War causes separation for Ha and her family. Once in America, Ha finds that many in the small township move to ignore her culture and her heritage. Vietnamese culture and

Nowadays journalists have the responsibility to report facts as accurately, objectively, and disinterestedly as is humanly possible. ‘’The, honest, self-disciplined, well-trained reporter seeks to be a propagandist for nothing but the truth’’ (Casey, 1944b).

Her tone moves from a humorous tone to a more serious one. For example, she states the responsibilities of a journalist such as, “On a working, finite level it is the effort to achieve illuminating candor in print and to strip away cant.” A more serious tone is channeled to capitalize the importance of journalism. She also uses strong syntax and anaphora to stress her point, “It is the effort to…” This statement shows the audience as journalists that what they do is important, and it should be remembered.

Arthur Ashe was captain of the U.S Davis cup tennis team and was awarded into the hall of fame in tennis. He once said “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” This quote means like for instances start where you are is liking accept of what you have and go on from there

How does the culture of the characters influence their identities, the ways in which they change, and their interactions with others? In the story Mr. Calloway committed a crime in the United States of America. He ran away with his dog. Since he ran away he really didn't speak to many people.

American journalist Clare Boothe Luce writes a speech to the Women’s National Press Club about how the press sacrifices sensationalist stories. Luce’s introduction talks about how the American press is wrong and how she tries to address the problem. She starts off by tells the other journalist how she is happy, but the audience makes her unhappy and challenged. This shows her hard work in writing and how the press lacks in writing true stories.

Continuing with the views of Nguyen and his parents, Nguyen’s split identity of being Vietnamese and American is fueled by the way he interacts with his family. The aforementioned disagreement between Nguyen and his parents on fighting the

Vu Trong Phung’s The Industry of Marrying Europeans handled a topic that many other reporters at the time saw as “taboo” or “deviant” because he openly wrote about people many saw as “lowlives” who were shunned from traditional Vietnamese culture (10). While other Vietnamese reporters avoided writing about opium addicts, gamblers, rapists, and other corrupted characters, Vu Trong Phung was unique in blatantly centering his works on these types of people. Though many of his contemporaries claimed that his work was nonfiction, Thúy Tranviet, the translator of this edition, argues that Vu Trong Phung’s work is a mixture of both nonfiction and fiction (11), making this primary source unique for its truth-bending and its translation. Basing his

Phuong is treated like an object to be won by the men in The Quiet American. Both Fowler and Pyle fight for her affections, without truly understanding her. Pyle sees Phuong as being an innocent, delicate victim that needs to be saved from Fowler who he believes is taking her for granted. “That night I woke from one of those short deep opium sleeps, ten minutes long, that seem a whole night’s rest, and found my hand where it had always lain at night, between her legs. She was asleep and I

Eighteen year old, Vietnamese Phuong was terribly naive. This young girl was in a state of peace with Fowler, but what she really wanted was to be settled, married. She, much like Vietnam, was being fought for. And was constantly wavering between Fowler and Pyle. The Vietnamese “want[ed] enough rice” (94) that’s all, and all Phuong wanted was to be settled. That was why she left Fowler for Pyle, why Pyles’ death wasn’t so devastating for her, and why she was so happy to be able to be “the second Mrs. Fowler.”

Theodore Dawes is a writer and reporter from Alabama, he uses examples from the frustration of the people in view of the media, and but brings a better understanding to the process that reporter and editors have to go though in creating a story. He states that objectivity has no existence in news reporting, but journalists still provide the truth that it does exist. Reporters have only so much face time to provide a segment, how can they possibly provide multiple sides of a story and not expect to get all of the facts. Editors and reporter have to make difficult decisions including, the morality of the story and what facts they can possibly leave out. Even though it seems the media is only trying to persuade and pick sides in a story, this

The duty of journalists is to tell the truth. Journalism means you go back to the actual facts, you look at the documents, you discover what the record is, and you report it that way. — Chomsky 2008