'Paradise of the Blind - Symbols of Change'

'In the novel, promised land of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong, umpteen economic, political, and familial troubles devise in spite of appearance the Vietnamese communist political sympathies among the incompatible hearty classes. Ché is emblematical of the beauty or ugliness in a diminished government, the differences between favorable classes, and the unification at heart a community. As the novel progresses, ché plays a diverse fictional character in the Vietnamese society. Duong Thu Huong explains at the origination of the novel the wideness of food in the Vietnamese culture. It usher out display the love, respect, or hatred of one giving or receiving food. Without ché, the Vietnamese arrive would not be demonstrated shrewdly because ché is a pagan food wholly found in Vietnam. Food in general is meaningful to the Vietnamese race because there argon so numerous kinds of ché that can be made for to severally one celebration. There is a myri ad of ché and each kind is significant to the event taken place in the novel.\nAlthough the people in the novel get it on within an untrusdeucerthy dust of government, they calm down celebrate the expert Moon festival by meeting and communing together as they prize the divers(a) kinds of foods including ché (pg 20). Hang retells the flooring of her mother when she was jr. and she could only timbre the scent of ché, which shows that one must be at a certain social class to undergo the luxurious inept rice. To the rich within the communist government, ché is tardily affordable, but to the poor, the glutinous rice is zero point but an essence. From the two perspectives of ché, the elegance and sin of the government is exemplified and the differences between the social classes ar demonstrated. By the families approach path together to cherish the fulfilling flavors of the rice, the unification of the communities is displayed. Buddhist nuns also sell thei r own form of ché for spectral gross revenue (pg 55). Ché also reflects the religious purposes in the preponderating ... '