At the beginning of the book, Fowler finds out that his familiarity that he has been waiting for has been found dead. The murdered adult male, Pyle, stole Fowler ‘s love Phuong and constabularies are looking for replies. Fowler does a great occupation of being guiltless. After he breaks the intelligence to Phuong who does non understand the police officer due to linguistic communication barriers, he asks her to remain the dark with him and she does. From this point, Fowler begins to reminisce about the first clip he met the immature American Pyle. Pyle approached Fowler at the Continental and asks if he could fall in his tabular array since there were no other available seats. Fowler agrees and the two become friends. A short clip subsequently, Fowler and Phuong were once more at the Continental when Pyle invites them to fall in his tabular array. The three subsequently travels with Granger where he visits the House of Five Hundred Girls and the others have dinner. While holding dinner, Pyle asks Phuong to dance with him. Fowler watches the brace dance and his feelings for Phuong Begin to stir. That dark, Fowler decides he will go to the battleground to see how the war is taking form so he will hold something to describe. After a long twenty-four hours on the battleground, Fowler is settling in for a dark of slumber when Pyle shows up out of the blue to describe that he has developed feelings for Phuong and intends to move on those feelings. Before falling to kip, Pyle ‘s confident attitude irks Fowler but Pyle promises non to prosecute Phuong until Fowler returns place. The following forenoon Pyle leaves while Fowler is gone to breakfast. Fowler attends a imperativeness conference and subsequently learns he has been promoted to foreign editor and will be go forthing Saigon shortly.

Entry # 2 8 February 2010

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Penguin, 2004. 63-180.

I. Part II of the Quiet American

A. Chapter 1

1. Pyle invites himself over to speak to Phuong in Fowler ‘s presence

2. Fowler rapidly writes a missive pleading to remain on as a letter writer

3. Phuong leaves before Pyle arrives

4. Pyle and Fowler make little talk when Phuong returns out of the blue

5. Fowler translates for Pyle while he proposes to get married Phuong if she will accept him

6. Both work forces and Duke become heated until Phuong refuses to go forth with Pyle

7. Pyle leaves with a broken bosom as Phuong watches him intently

8. Fowler rapidly scribes a note to his married woman inquiring for a divorce

9. As Fowler smokes the opium that Phuong has prepared he tells her that he has been ordered place but has written his married woman to inquire for the divorce

II. Part II-Chapter 2

A. Chapter 2-Part 1

1. The Holy See festival

2. Pyle has secret conversation with a commanding officer

3. Fowler reflects about assorted memories

B. Chapter 2- Part 2

1. Pyle gets a drive with Fowler back to Saigon

2. Fowler ‘s auto runs out of gas and they are stranded

C. Chapter 2- Part 3

1. Fowler and Pyle find safety for the dark at a ticker tower with two

Vietnamese soldiers

2. Fowler and Pyle discuss democracy, faith, and their beliefs ( or deficiency of )

3. Pyle manages to acquire a sten gun from the two work forces in the ticker tower

4. The work forces have a deep treatment about sex and deceasing

5. The two are forced from the tower merely before it is blown up

6. Pyle saves Fowler ‘s life

7. They are fired upon in the rice field

8. Pyle work stoppages out to acquire aid for Fowler at the following tower

9. Pyle returns with aid and tells Fowler the weeping male child was dead

III. Chapter 3

A. Chapter 3-Part 1

1. After a stay in a military infirmary, Fowler returns place to Phuong

2. A missive has arrived to deny a divorce

3. Fowler writes Pyle a missive and lies about the divorce

B. Chapter 3-Part 2

1. Fowler leans more and more on Dominguez to make the coverage

2. Dominguez falls ill

3. Fowler visits Dominguez ‘s friend, Monsieur Chou about Pyle

4. Mr. Heng shows the mold and membranophone but does non state Fowler the importance

C. Chapter 3- Part 3

1. Pyle confronts Fowler about the prevarications he wrote in the missive

2. Fowler learns that Phuong allowed her sister to read the missive

3. Pyle tells Phuong that Fowler has cheated her

IV. Part Three- Chapter 1

A. Chapter 1-Part1

1. The book flips back to show tense with a meeting of Fowler and Vigot

2. Fowler learns from Vigot that Pyle ‘s Canis familiaris has been found

3. Vigot says he will drop in on Fowler at 10 to talk with him in private

B. Chapter 1-Part 2

1. The book goes back to retrieving when Pyle was alive

2. “ Operation Bicyclette ” revealed

3. Fowler finds the secret room with the working imperativeness

4. At 1:30 ante meridiem, Fowler realizes that Phuong has left him

C. Chapter 1- Part 3

1. Fowler goes to happen Pyle but does non

2. Fowler gets crude with Joe the Economic Attache

3. Fowler breaks down and calls in the public toilet

D. Chapter 1- Part 4

1. Fowler goes north to acquire off from everything

2. Fowler is allowed to travel on a perpendicular mission with Captain Trouin

E. Chapter 1- Part 5

1. Captain Trouin and Fowler visit an opium house

2. They briefly discuss war and love

3. Fowler takes a lady place but remembers Phuong and loses his desire

V. Chapter 2

A. Chapter 2-Part 1

1. Fowler returns to Saigon to happen Pyle at his place

2. The intelligence is broken that Pyle and Phuong has non been married yet

B. Chapter 2- Part2

1. Fowler goes to see a new flat

2. He stops by the Pavillon for an iced beer and finds himself in the center of an

detonation

3. Pyle emerges and assure Fowler that Phuong was non at the milk-bar

4. Fowler realizes that Pyle played a portion in the detonation

5. Pyle was deceived about a planned parade

VI. Part IV

A. Chapter 1-Part1

1. The narrative flips back to the present clip of Fowler waiting for Vigot to come

2. Vigot comes by and provenders adequate information to allow Fowler cognize he knows he

lied

a. The clip rectification

B. The Canis familiaris ‘s paws

B. Chapter 2-Part 1

1. The narrative goes back to retrieving

2. Fowler meets with Mr. Heng and is asked to assist them halt Pyle

C. Chapter 2-Part 2

1. Dominguez showed up out of the blue

2. Pyle comes by and Fowler asks him to dinner

3. Fowler signals to the trishaw driver

4. Second ideas emerge in Fowler ‘s head

D. Chapter 2- Part 3

1. Fowler watches the American bombers unload

2. After talking briefly with Wilkins, he goes to the theatre

3. Pyle does non demo up at the eating house

4. Farmers confides his boy is really ill to Fowler

E. Chapter 3

1. Phuong returns from the film

2. Fowler reads the wire from his married woman accepting his divorce

3. Phuong excitedly goes to state her sister of an approaching matrimony

Pyle comes over to profess his desire to get married Phuong with Fowler nowadays. The two work forces get angry at each and without demoing emotion, Phuong withdraws herself and starts looking at her image books of royal households. Finally, she tells Pyle that she will remain with Fowler. Pyle is clearly disquieted because he ne’er suspected that she would turn down his proposal. Fowler, in a despairing effort to maintain Phuong, he writes he married woman and asks her to see disassociating him. He feels certain she will non allow his petition. Pyle and Fowler both wind up at the Holy See festival. When it is clip to return place before the roads become insecure, Pyle realizes that his auto will non get down. Fowler thinks he is utilizing this as an alibi to hold secret conversation with the commanding officer. Pyle accepts a drive with Fowler but the auto runs out of gas. The two work forces walk to the nearest tower and seek safety for the dark with two immature Vietnamese work forces. Finally Pyle gets one of the arms in the tower. A few bombs and fires are heard in the distance which finally make their manner to where the work forces are in the ticker tower. Fowler and Pyle flight but Fowler is injured in the procedure. Pyle saves Fowler by non go forthing him in the unfastened field. After concealing in the rice field for some clip, Pyle takes Fowler near the route and goes for aid. Fowler spends some clip in the infirmary nursing the broken leg. He eventually makes it back place to happen Phuong still waiting for him. Fowler decides to compose Pyle and state him that his married woman has decided to get down divorce proceedings.

In the interim, Fowler finds out that Pyle is involved in doing explosives. When Pyle comes to face Fowler about the prevarication, Fowler hints to Pyle that he knows the truth about his plaything concern. Shortly after the bike cover up was exposed, Phuong leaves Fowler because she has learned that Fowler lied about the missive from his married woman. Finally Fowler goes north on a perpendicular mission. Upon return, he and the new friend visit an opium house where Fowler decides to take a miss place with him. In his unhappiness, he can non do love to the miss. Once he returned to Saigon, he fins Pyle waiting for him at the flat inquiring for his friendly relationship. The following twenty-four hours, Fowler finds himself in the town during an detonation merely to larn that Pyle had a manus in the planning. Pyle finds out that he has been betrayed by General The ‘ . Fowler comments that being guiltless is a sort of insanity significance that non cognizing brings artlessness and blocks a individual from duty. This upsets Fowler so much that he helps with taking Pyle out. Fowler is questioned many times by Vigot who finally lets Fowler cognize that he is cognizant Fowler had a manus in Pyle ‘s decease. Once Phuong learns of Pyle ‘s decease, she moves back in with Fowler who gets a wire from his married woman stating she has started the divorce proceedings.