Struggles

The gangster we are all looking for

Le Thi Diem Thuy elevates with the great intrigue gentility of memoirs of the family lost in her beautifully articulated work of fiction The gangster we are all looking for ' Writer explicitly prepares us in the beginning itself to experience characters mixed emotions of lost memories and of estrangement and dislodgment and the emotional turmoil 's . As the calmness of the water in ocean is often perturbed by the storms and as is our life , so is the life of the characters . Water has the

most crucial role to play and is one of the main motives with on one hand juxtaposing with the emotions of the characters while on the other hand playing most symbolic role in different ways in the text Water on one hand is a unifying medium while on the other hand is also a dividing force . Following essay is a ramification of the tale of the tragedy of the protagonists with analysis on how water is so an integral part of the lives of Vietnamese and how it is so associated with all their sorrows , struggles , traumatized events , dissociation and even final happiness

Writer makes us aware of the fact that in Vietnam the word for water and the word for a nation , a country and a homeland are one and the same : nu 'o 'c (Quote ) Moreover water is not anything just a literal figure but also a symbol of every facet of the life of Vietnamese...