The Quiet American Lesson Plan

Love Triangle of Doom

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

How might we consider the love triangle (Pyle, Fowler and Phuong) in The Quiet American as an allegory for the conflict in Vietnam?

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

Structure:

Students should work individually to develop an analytical paper that treats the love triangle between Pyle, Fowler and Phuong as an allegory for the conflict in Vietnam.

Strong responses should touch on at least some of the following points:

- Both Fowler and Pyle are highly privileged Westerners, and the text pits them against each other while really they are both hurting the...