ARE THEY HEROES OR NOT? TALKING ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTERS FROM VIET THANH NGUYEN’S NOVEL, THE SYMPATHIZER
ARE THEY HEROES OR NOT? TALKING ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTERS FROM VIET THANH NGUYEN’S NOVEL, THE SYMPATHIZER

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade the novels written by various Asian Americans authors became popular among teenaged and adult readers from the United States, because they depict the real problems of the average American and offer cultural information about several ethnic groups from America. Moreover, Asian American novels impress the researchers of American and Asian literature, because they offer both the image of the adaptation of the immigrant to the United States of America and the way in which they preserve their traditions in the new country, at the same time. The research tries to explain that the main characters from The Sympathizer (a North Vietnamese mole in the Republic of Vietnam, Bon, and a South Vietnamese general) can be seen as Vietnamese heroes, who are exiled to the United States. By talking about a heroic person, we will refer to the hero from an Asian perspective. In this case, the hero does not have to use force, but has to use his intelligence to fight his enemy and can use his physical strength only if he cannot defeat the enemy in another way.

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