The Sorrow of War (Thursday)

• Pages: 64-85
• Passage One: During a lunch break at home from school one day Kien was startled when Hanh slipped quietly into his room. “Hey, younger brother, how about helping me later. I want to dig an air-raid shelter under my bed so i don’t have to tear down the street everytime that siren goes off.” (pg. 65, 1st paragraph)

• Question One: Does the quotation relate to a theme? If so, which theme and how does it relate?
• Answer: Finding shortcuts to bond with other people/things brings easy living. Many people in modern times create shortcuts to do any and everything.
• Question Two: Does the quotation characterize Kien, Phoung, or another character? If so, in what way does it characterize?
• Answer: This quotation characterizes kien and how older sister hets him to help dig an air-raid shelter under her bed due to her laziness.

• Passage Two: Kien took to staring out of his window for hours on end, then walking the dark streets, now and then looking back in hope. On bad nights he would loose control altogether and breakdown, sobbing into his pillow. Yet he knew that if she returned to him both of them would suffer again. 
• Question One: Does the quotation relate to a theme? If so, which theme and how does it relate?
• Answer: Never hide from one’s feelings. This is a theme because as Kien holds his feelings from Hanh it began changing him negatively.
• Question Two: Does the quotation characterize Kien, Phoung, or another character? If so, in what way does it characterize?
• Answer: This quote characterizes Kien and his feeligs toward Hanh and how it is also ruining his life.