“To write is to love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.”
Sometime it is devastating that broken relationship can never be fixed and this is presented in this short story, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, in which the protagonist learns the genuine significance of writing by the loss of his story which is destroyed by how it is made. Nam Lee is portrayed as a writing student who takes writing too casually and engaging the past with his father entirely changes his attitude toward writing within the act of love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice of which he eventually learned they are the metaphor of writing.
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This tragic incident leads to the change in Nam Le’s perplexing mind that he finally comes to sense and fully understand his father. Moreover, it is not only the story that his father burns in to ashes but it is also his connection with his father that Nam Le attaches himself with the mistake he make. And it traumatizes him. By burning his story is a sign that his father already forgives him. It means that his father wants him to let go of his past, “His sacrifice was complete and compelled him to everything that happened”. Then the story is changed from Vietnamese veteran to Love and Honour and Pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
In conclusion, it is fair to claim that Nam Le deliberately writes this story to confess and apology his mistakes his father’s intention of burning his story and that he used to take writing too casually. The frozen river illustrated in the ending of this story is the metaphor of Nam Le experience on writing which it could reflect the impact of writing that it takes time “to hold on its skin the perfect and crystalline world – and how that world could be shattered by a small stone dropped like a single