The Distant Stars: Youth At War
Youth at War
The reader immediately recognizes the youthful idealism Dana Sachs describes in her analysis of Le Minh Khue's short story "The Distant Stars." Khue's short story is an account of three girls who reminisce about childhood joys in their beloved Hanoi as they go about the dangerous business of filling craters and detonating bombs along a trail.
The teenage girls, Nho, Thao, and the narrator Dinh, are filled with such idealistic and patriotic zeal that the constant threat of death that they face in the searing heat of broad daylight does not faze them. In her analysis Sachs notes how the "young women approach their duty with good humor and a love that is selfless, passionate, and carefree, only found in the hearts of soldiers' " (Sachs 1493). This is further supported when Dinh asks, "Where else could you experience taut nerves, an erratic heartbeat and the knowledge that all around lay unexploded bombs. Maybe they'd explode now or maybe in another moment. But......
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