![]() They are both also captured and sent to a detention camp for over a year, before being released by the Commissar and the Commandant and sent out of Vietnam. ![]() Under the General’s orders, he murders the crapulent major, calling it and all other politically-motivated murders “assassinations.” Later, they are both sent back to Vietnam to fight the General’s guerrilla war against the Communists. Bon and the narrator became friends at lycée, where Bon jumped into a fight to protect the narrator from bullies who called him “unnatural.” Bon is a dedicated and obedient soldier. As a former airman, he has the ability to jump out of airplanes, walk thirty miles with eighty pounds on his back, and hit a bull’s-eye with a pistol and rifle. He has the appearance of a handsome man who has been “beaten to a pulp.” He has large, “parachute-like ears” and a chin that looks as though it is “perpetually tucked into the folds of his neck.” His flat nose is “bent hard right.” Politically, he is conservative and “a genuine patriot” who has hated Communists since a local group of them forced his father, a village chief, to kneel in the village square and make a confession before shooting him behind the ear. ![]() ![]() The spy receives an offer from a Hollywood studio to consult on a film about the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, the spy exchanges intel about a possible uprising on American soil. He bemoans American culture and its humiliating effects on him. He is the husband of Linh and the father of Duc, who is also the narrator’s godson. Bon's family was killed in a military attack, spurring him to move to America where he opens a liquor store. One of the narrator’s three “blood brothers,” along with Man. ![]()
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