Who is Sinh, Hien, Phan from The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam and what is their importance? The_Sorrow_of_War English & Literature "Sinh

Kien served with all three of these soldiers during the war. soldiers. Kien visits Sinh shortly after his return to Hanoi. Hien is a female soldier who travels with Kien on the train back to Hanoi. Phan tells Kien a story of how his attempts to aid a severely wounded soldier are hampered by confusion and rain, leaving him with a vividly imagined and lifelong sense of guilt. All three metaphorically represent and foreshadow aspects of Kien's own postwar suffering.