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Chapter 1

• Though the narrator lost his wife to a crippled man, he has no hatred.

• Now, the two are probably suffering as they still live in Vietnam.

• The narrator could hate many, but he just feels sorry for his enemies.

• A Buddhist, the narrator lives with other South Vietnamese in Gretna, Louisiana.

• The North Vietnamese immigrants live in Versailles, Louisiana, and are Catholics.

• During the war, the narrator worked as an interpreter for the Australians.

• Through a program called Open Arms, a North Vietnamese soldier named Thap was allowed to change sides.

• As an interpreter, the narrator was there when the man was interrogated.

• Then the narrator had an informal conversation with the man himself.

• Thap had changed sides in the war because the VC had murdered his family.

• One evening, the men, including Thap, were brought to the officers’ club to watch a pornographic movie.

• That night...

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