Miss Saigon Essay

Miss Saigon is a tragic story of go to bed that is set in 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War. It is based on Giacomo Puccinis opera house Madame Butterfly. The story begins in a shady Vietnamese club called never-never land. The audience is introduced to Kim who is on her first day as a bargirl. Upon entryway the stage, she is greeted by the head who owns the club. In the back end, the audience can see the opposite bargirls getting ready for that iniquity and laughing at Kims inexperience. It goes back to the front to show U.S. Marines evanesceing metre with most prostitutes. The audience is and so introduced to Chris Scott and his friend derriere Thomas who tries very hard to persuade Chris to spend some quality time with one of the girls. In this bar, there is a Miss Saigon title that all of the bar girls vie for, and the winner is disposed to a soldier for the night. This is the chance for the bar girls to make an the Statesn go in complete with them and take them a way from Saigon. It is during this contest that Chris first sees Kim.He perceives innocence in her that all of the other girls dont have. Although a different girl is crowned Miss Saigon, seat sees that his friend desire Kim, and so he buys a room from the engineer for Chris and Kim. After some reluctance, they both enter the room. After spending a night together, Chris realizes that he has fallen in love with Kim. It is appargonnt that she has fallen in love with him too because when he tries to give her money, she refuses it. They both promise their love to from each one other and Chris tells her that he pull up stakes take c be of her. Chris takes some time off to spend with Kim. They get married, just instantly during the wedding Thuy who is Kims cousin-german comes in and is very angry because he was engaged since they were thirteen. She lets him know that she does non have any feelings for him and that their arranged marriage no longer exists because her parents are dea d. Chris then promises Kim to take her with him when he chokes to return to America. Three years afterwards there is a street parade in Ho chi Ming City which used to be Saigon. Thuy tells his soldiers to discovery Kim. She has been hiding in a poor area waiting for Chris to come back.The audience then sees Chris in America with his new wife Ellen. Both Ellen and Kim are very much(prenominal) in love with Chris. Thuy has ordered the target to find Kim, and he brings her to him. He proposes to marry her again, but she refuses. She shows tam-o-shanter, Chriss son to him, and Thuy becomes very angry. He is most to kill Tam with a knife but Kim kills him and runs away with Tum. She runs to the Engineer and tells him what she did, he is very unhelpful until he realizes that Tum is Chriss son. The Engineers main mission during the whole play is to get a passport to the United States. He sees Tum as his perfect chance. Thus, he agrees to help Kim and the boy. In the second part of M iss Saigon, the audience is reintroduced to john who is now working with an organization that reconnects children made during the war to their American fathers. John informs Chris that Kim is still alive and this relieves him. John also lets Chris know that he has a little boy and that he should go to Bangkok with Ellen.Because of this, Chris tells Ellen about Tam and Kim. Once again, the Engineer has a shady club in which Kim dances. This is where John finds her and tells her that Chris is back. He attempts to tell her that Chris is married, but Kim is too knowing to listen to him and tells her olive-sized boy that his father is back. She truly believes that Chris go forth take them back to America with him. John cant bear to tell her the truth and kind of swears to bring Chris back. The Engineer doubts Chris will come and tells Kim to go find him herself. Thuys ghost appears to Kim and he tells her that Chris will betray her as she was betrayed on the night of the fall of Sai gon. With this, Kim has a flashback to what actually happened travel night. Chris was called to the embassy, and after telling her to mob and leaving his gun with her, he leaves. After entering the embassy the gates are closed and there is a call from Washington for the instant excrement of the Americans that remained.No more Vietnamese are allowed into the gates. Chris tries very hard to leave the embassy to look for Kim, but John ultimately punches him and he is put into the last helicopter leaving. Kim promises to wait for him. After the flashback, the audience sees Kim excitedly dressed in her wedding clothes and she goes to where Chris is staying. She finds Ellen and thinks it is Johns wife, but Ellen tells her she is Chriss wife. Kim, however, does not believe her. She pleads with Ellen to take her boy so that he wont grow up in the streets. Ellen does not agree, and tells her that they will help him, but that she wants her own children with Chris. Devastated, Kim runs out o f the room. Afterwards, John and Chris arrive to find Ellen and she tells them that Kim has visited and knows everything. Chris and John feel terrible that they werent able to break it less(prenominal) painfully to her.Ellen makes Chris choose her or Kim, and he reassures her that what they have was much stronger than what he had with Kim. He decides to support his son and estranged wife by send them money from America, but not actually taking them with him. John cautions that Kim will not let them leave without Tam. They leave to tell Kim what they have decided. okay in her room, the audience sees Kim speaking to Tam. She tells him he has a father now and should be really happy. In her room, Kim tells Tam that he should be happy because he now has a father. She tells him that she cannot go with him but will be watching over him (The Sacred Bird/Little God Of My midpoint/This Is The Hour (reprise)).Chris, Ellen, John, and the Engineer arrive just outside her room. The Engineer com es in to take Tam outside to introduce Tam to his father. While this is happening, Kim move behind a curtain and shoots herself. As she falls to the floor, everyone rushes into the room at the sound of the gunshot and find Kim mortally wounded. Chris selects Kim in his arms and asks what she has do and why she did this, as she explains that the gods have guided him to his son. Chris begs her not to die, as she asks him to hold her one last time. After sharing one utmost kiss, Kim says her final words to Chris, echoing what he said to her from the song Sun and synodic month (How in one night have we come so far-off?) and she dies in his arms (Finale).