The
quiet American
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questions
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Movie:
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Discussion
questions:
1.
Why do you think Greene begins the
book with the death of Pyle? Is that
a spoiler or isn't it?
2.
How does Pyle contrast with Fowler?
3.
Where do you think the movie did
justice to the book? Where didn't it?
4.
Do you think the cast was well
chosen for the parts of Pyle and
Fowler?
5.
Fowler refuses to take sides, but at
some point he is forced to do so.
When and why?
6.
Do you think Fowler and Pyle can be
considered friends? Why (not)?
7.
Pyle saves Fowler at one point in
the story. What does this fact do to
the "friendship" between
the two men?
8.
Is it important to the story that
Fowler uses opium? What does it say
about Fowler?
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