Response Paper #6
The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel calls himself a “sympathizer,” but what does he mean exactly? What are the multiple meanings of “sympathize” that the text invites us to consider? How does his role as a sympathizer complicate his identity, his ability to know himself? How does it relate to his claim that he is a “man of two faces” (1)? Choose a passage from the first three chapters that demonstrates the way in which the narrator’s sympathies work, and analyze it in order to explain what it means, in Viet’s view, to be a sympathizer.
1-2 pages, double-spaced. Due May 8.
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