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1. Connections shield Phũ from a road injury

   When Phũ injures someone on the road, his father uses his connections to have him released, sparing him the consequences. The novel shows how such protection can remove the check that punishment would provide. It still treats wrongdoing as a matter of moral choice, leaving room for guilt and repentance.

2. Grotesque satire exposes what realism hides

   The novel frames ordinary urban social life, including parties, bribes, status display and family ambition, in apocalyptic and darkly comic terms. The exaggeration makes routine corruption visible as monstrous rather than normal. Pushing everyday behavior to absurd extremes strips away the habituation that lets a society stop noticing its own decay.

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