TQA Test Act 1
Part 1 1
Waiting for Pyle who said he was coming by 10.
Didn’t come, instead he went to a restaurant. Saw a girl, who’s also waiting for Pyle.
They went upstairs, old ladies talked about them after they passed.
They went to his room.
Can’t tell her jests, she doesn’t understand.
The girl is boiling water for tea.
He knows the girl(Phuong) well.
Phuong is from Vietnam, but knows some French and English.
She was serving Fowler smoke.
Pyle promised he is going to marry Phuong which Fowler didn’t say.
Fowler is addicted to smoking.
Got asked about Pyle.
Got questioned by the police, and Fowler was defending Phuong since they were in a relationship before.
Had a drink at Continental at six.
Pyle had to tell Fowler something important,but never showed up.
Pyle’s body was found under the bridge of Dakow
Pyle was fan of Yankee’s
Dead body was frozen, and asked Fowler to identify him.
Pyle had a wound on his chest but not the reason that killed him, he was killed because he was drowning in the mud. Found mud in his lungs.
Fowler didn’t Phuong that Pyle was dead.
Pyle was a quiet American compared to others.
They talked about York and his works.
Part 1 2/3
After they come back from the station Phuong wants to leave and Fowler wants to take care of her.
Police were examining his card.
Found an empty car in Pyle’s garage. Empty of petrol.
Fowler clarified that he wasn’t involved in Pyle’s death twice.
Phuong kept her stuff under the bed, and there was even a picture book.
Pyle has a black chow, a dog that has black tongue.
Found three York Harding’s works.
Fowler chose the role of the west from Pyle’s collection.
Fowler got pissed by all the repetitive questions that Vigot asked, and wanted Pyle to be alive, just like usual.
Pyle also met Phuong in Continental where he met Fowler.
Pyle is a pretty shy person.
Mick, a French dude that no one knows, was brought here by Granger.
Granger tried to get on the trishaw with Phuong but Pyle diverted him.
They went to a dance party?
Pyle got a few girls on him that Fowler had to pull Pyle out of the crowd.
Pyle thought the girls were pretty.
Fowler and Phuong’s relationship didn’t go well.
Pyle was a bad dancer.
Phuong was pleased by Pyle through their dances.
Pyle is from boston.
Pyle’s dad is an engineering doctor.
Pyle was getting questioned about his whole family by Miss Hei, Phuong’s older sister.
Part 1 4
Fowler was in Nam Dinh, which is in north vietnam.
The town Phat Diem was really quiet, like a dead town compared to the past when it was the most alive town.
No journalists were allowed to report, even if they were, they can only report the victories.
In the cathedral, the father said it was they were neutral and it is the god’s territory.
The priest said he was neutral but one of the churches they used for the war.
Fowlers asked the French army to accompany him and they gave him a steel helmet and he refused.
Tons of dead bodies were found in the canal.
Fowler almost got a shot, and waited for his final destination.
Fowler saw a dead mother and a boy, he said he hated war.
Fowler had a hard time resting on the floor.
The soldiers lent Fowler a revolver.
The soldiers are from a medical group.
Pyle came down here alone which was really dangerous.
Pyle came here to see Fowler.
Fowler’s Christain name is Thomas.
Thomas Fowler already had a wife at home which is the reason why he couldn’t marry Phuong.
Pyle’s name is Alden.
Their camp got attacked, and Pyle asked for advice on having relations with Phuong.
Fowler only wants Phuong’s body, not like Pyle.
Fowler stayed at Saigon for 3 weeks which is more than he thought.
Pyle left a note for Fowler before he left to the south.
Pyle’s real job is actually in the south.
The colonel during the press conference was talking french first then after a few questions began to talk in english which is very good.
Biography: Basic Info
Graham Greene born October 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switzerland
His father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School
Which Greene attended for some years.
After running away from school, he was sent to London to a psychoanalyst
After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926
Wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, he married in 1927
He moved to London.
His first published work was a book of verse, Babbling April (1925)
The Man Within (1929)
He quit The Times and worked as a film critic and literary editor for The Spectator until 1940.
He began to come into his own with a thriller, Stamboul Train 1932, also published as Orient Express
Books/Works
Stamboul Train was also the first of Greene’s many novels to be filmed (1934)
A Gun for Sale (1936);
Published as This Gun for Hire films 1942.