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    This document summarizes a short story about a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyen Tri Duan. She lives in a village torn apart by war, where she has lost her father, mother, and siblings to the violence. Tri Duan is alone and longing for death to end her suffering. The story describes how war suddenly comes to her village again. As the fighting breaks out, a little girl pulls Tri Duan by the hand to flee, while Tri Duan takes one last look at her home before leaving with the girl.

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    This document summarizes a short story about a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyen Tri Duan. She lives in a village torn apart by war, where she has lost her father, mother, and siblings to the violence. Tri Duan is alone and longing for death to end her suffering. The story describes how war suddenly comes to her village again. As the fighting breaks out, a little girl pulls Tri Duan by the hand to flee, while Tri Duan takes one last look at her home before leaving with the girl.

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    This is the Powerpoint presentation of my friend regarding the story "Run" by Faud Salim.

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    This document summarizes a short story about a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyen Tri Duan. She lives in a village torn apart by war, where she has lost her father, mother, and siblings to the violence. Tri Duan is alone and longing for death to end her suffering. The story describes how war suddenly comes to her village again. As the fighting breaks out, a little girl pulls Tri Duan by the hand to flee, while Tri Duan takes one last look at her home before leaving with the girl.

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    This document summarizes a short story about a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyen Tri Duan. She lives in a village torn apart by war, where she has lost her father, mother, and siblings to the violence. Tri Duan is alone and longing for death to end her suffering. The story describes how war suddenly comes to her village again. As the fighting breaks out, a little girl pulls Tri Duan by the hand to flee, while Tri Duan takes one last look at her home before leaving with the girl.

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    RUN

    By Faud Salim

    Who experience hard sleeping when it's time to sleep ? What are the things would you do so that you can go to sleep ? Do any of you experience losing a parents or family ??? Now Do any of you have experience or seen in real life a village or country torn by a war ???

    Characters:

    The main Character: * Nguyen Tri Duan - (protagonist) main character, restless and alone in life.

    Vietcong Little girl- who is holding her tightly.

    The Story:

    Nguyen Tri Duan : Is a twelve years old. She is Vietnamese. She was born in a village called Vinh Long located somewhere in a country torn by the war.

    She

    is frail, thin, and too small for her age. Her bones show all over her body. And the body is always filthy and smelly, covered with scabies. Her hair is long but messy and smelly.

    Tri

    Duan is also full of frustration for having to go on living miserably. She feels like having her own life. And she really didn't care how her life will end. SHE IS WILLING TO DIE like her father, mother, sisters and brothers die.

    first

    who died was her father three years ago when he accidentally step on a mine while tending the rice field.

    After

    a few months later her mother was shot by a Vietcong while doing her washing at the bank of the Mekong River.

    Then

    two of her brothers and sisters died gruesomely and a hand grenade they were playing with exploded in there faces.

    Tri

    duan was a helpless victim of cruel circumtances

    Tri Duan misses her sister very much. The last time they met was some years ago when the sister came back from Saigon on a surprise visit.

    her

    only living sister is now in Saigon comfortably as a whore..

    Suddenly

    there is a deafening sound of guns and artillery. And suddenly it is like daylight. War has come. WAR HAS COME!

    But

    Tri Duan is not afraid. Neither is she panicky. She just stands there and watches the commotion. She does not even cry . Only her heart beats faster.

    A little

    girl pulling tri duan by the hand, not letting her go. while running, Tri duan turns her head to have a last look at her old shack, at her rice field, at her pig sty, at her plantation as if to bid FAREWELL.

    Conflict:
    Man Vs Himself: - She wants to die to end her suffering. - She keeps on waiting for a miracle to happen when in reality, she does nothing to help herself.

    Theme:

    Never Losing Hope (hope) Letting go

    Moral:

    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. - Ann Landers

    Literary Shop:
    The

    atmosphere of a story or any other literary work is its general mood or feeling which the reader senses as he proceeds. This feeling or mood is created by the author by means of descriptions about the setting and the

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