Review and Reflection of The Sorrow of War

Review: 

The book "the sorrow of war" was a very good book with a very bold statement. It never once got off the topic of sorrow. The word choice was fantastic plus it had many life hacks. All the tales were either very brave or very haunting.  He didn't leave anything out and it was uncut and raw.

Reflection:

Throughout reading this book i often thought of the losses in life. This book was written by the people who lost much. The characters were nothing like me, neither one but i could still sense their sorrow. The scenes were excruciating and i couldn't help but empathize their since of lost. This is a very dark book. 

(Thursday)
Nothing lasted forever in this world, he knew that. Even love and sorrow inside an aging man would finally dissipate under the realization that his suffering, his tortured thoughts, were small and meaningless in the overall scheme of things. Like wispy smoke spiraling into the sky, glimpsed for a moment, then gone. (pg. 71)

(Question 2)
Kien's sorrow is put on display in this quote because of his lack of hope.

(Question 3)
Yes, it's a indication of idleness.

(Friday)
They said at the foot of Ascension Pass, deep inside the ancient forest, the ageless trees whispered along with a song that merged into harmony with an ethereal guitar, singing, "O victorious years and months, O endless suffering and pain..."
A nameless song with a ghostly rhythm, simple and mysterious, that everyone had heard, yet each said they'd heard different versions. (pg. 90)

(Question 1)
The theme mortality created so many songs and tells.

(Question 4)
The Jungle of screaming souls is very ancient.

(Saturday)
Oanh had been sympathetic and look what that got him. (pg.106)

(Question 2)
Oanh, by being sympathetic.

(Question 3)
The conflict that comes with being sympathetic in war. Being sympathetic in war makes you die.

(Sunday)
He would rather stand by night after night listening to her lovers' noisy jokes than not have her there at all.(pg.143)

(Question 1)
The theme hope made him wait for her even if it hurted him.

(Question 2)
This quote shows how Kien is full of in denial and insecurity.