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The Jungle of Screaming Souls
The Jungle of Screaming Souls—where Kien is sent at the end of the Vietnam War to retrieve the corpses of missing soldiers—symbolizes the ways in which trauma and grief often lurk beneath the surface of…
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The Paintings and the Novel
The paintings Kien’s father creates and then destroys at the end of his life symbolize a fierce devotion to art for art’s own sake. Kien’s father doesn’t paint for any other reason than to…
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