Analysis Of Duong Thu Huongs Novel Without A Name

World always seems to be darker and gloomier through the eyes of a writer. Susceptible to externals, a writer goes beyond the exterior boundaries and takes only one more step into circumstances to interpret them to what they really are in nature for a reader. What we merely see white is provable to be absolute black and what is black to our understanding may in fact be a morally white happy ending. Duong Thu Huongs’ Novel without a Name is another attempt to open the same window to the same view, by a pair of different hands. She makes another effort to illustrate what has been lost in Vietnam during the years of war. To transfer the message of war to her readers, she creates a variety of characters and events during the course of the story.

Otherwise this part gives the reader an opportunity to know the effects of war on women by being drafted and raped. She loses the support of her own family. She also cannot even think of being with her lover anymore since he cannot live with a woman who carries another guy’s baby. The village communist party’s pretended morality is the main purpose of illustrating such a scene. Hoa is the future of many more Vietnamese girls. She is the voice of those who did not volunteer to experience the most dreadful moment of a girl’s life (139-143-144.) This is not a story and this sort of brutality did exist in Vietnam at the time of war. American soldiers as an instance used to go to Vietnamese villages at nights with the purpose of kidnapping a girl. They dragged her then to their troop and raped her. The last one was supposed to shoot her on her head. Jacqueline E.Lawson explains in her article; “She is a Pretty Woman... for a gook: The Misogyny of the Vietnam War” that for “young American males intent on asserting their superiority, their potency, their manhood, raping a woman in a combat zone is something a man “has” to do, “needs” to do, and “has the right” to do (Karen Stuhldrher 1.) The question is then whether we can find justice somewhere in war or not; the answer is clear-cut. An example of being raped and killed has been brought on by the writer at the very beginning of the novel, where Quan and other soldiers find the corpses of six young northern Vietnamese girls (Duong Thu Huong 2.) The reader finds out that these were probably volunteers from the north and starts thinking what kind of reward is this to a person who volunteers to help? Being tortured, raped, and