He has to do this as “Innocence always calls mutely for protection…” (Green, 36)

Pyle is quiet in his involvements as many of the persons around him were followers of the colonialist and communistic ideologies and thus could interfere with his missions to save the “innocent” Vietnamese. He is depicted as a guy with the intentions of saving the Vietnamese and the part of the world that has been subject to the maneuvers of the prior colonialism and communism theories. Pyle believes that neither communism nor colonialism can heal the third world countries but rather third force. One of the main characters in Green’s work piece is an American ideologist who has read much about the “third forces” theory in the books of York Harding and eventually taken them as his -Alden Pyle. However, by the end of the novel the audience is able to understand the thematic phrase from various contexts. Thus, the audience is left in suspense to decide why the good and the innocent are so dangerous as to require the protection of God. However, the reference of anything as being good and innocent connotes a secure environment. Some of the features in the novel attributed to the line and the American exceptional and democratic ideology at home and abroad are tackled in this paper with an aim of unearthing the reason of seeking the protection of God from the “good and innocent”.įowler- the narrator- is calling for the protection from what he terms as the good and the innocent. The tone, ambiguity, the person of the narrator and the context of the phrase has been the main reasons for the phase’s accreditation of all this. One of the phrases that have attracted review, criticism and also appraisal is the page 18’s “God save us from the good and innocent”.

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