The Things They Carried
What is the difference between something that is intangible vs. something that is tangible?
Tangible = can be felt
Where is Tim working the summer before the war?
Armour meatpacking plant
According to O'Brien, a true war story is never ____?
Moral
Shock, terror, freezes
How old was Linda when she died?
9 years old
What dose Martha send to Jimmy Cross as a small reminder of home?
A stone from the beach
What does Tim think should happen to people who vote for the war?
They should be the first to fight
How did Curt Lemon die?
Playing catch with a grenade.
Kiowa asks O'Brien a series of rhetorical questions in this section. What are rhetorical questions?
Questions that do not require an answer.
Where does Tim go to connect with people he has lost?
To sleep/to dream
What is Ted Lavendar doing right before he dies?
Using the latrine
World War II
Water buffalo
O'Brien creates an imagined story for the man he killed. What does he imagine the man wanted to do for work?
Teach math
Who does Tim pretend to be in order to feel happy?
Timmy
Which character realizes that it was his obligation "not to be loved but to lead."
Jimmy Cross
Where is the rainy river located?
Between Minnesota and Canada
O'Brien makes an allusion to the Garden of Eden, but he describes Vietnam as a Garden of ______ what?
Evil
By the end of the story, which character has not said a single word?
Tim O'Brien
How old is Tim at the time he is writing the story?
43 years old
According to O'Brien, what do all the men dream about at night?
Freedom birds
What is the name of the eighty-one year old man who mentors Tim on the rainy river?
Elroy Berdhal
At the end of this story, O'Brien claims that this was a not a war story. What kind of story was it?
Love story
What is the similarity shared between Tim and the man he killed?
Neither one wanted to fight in the war
According to O'Brien, in what places (intangible) can people live forever?
Stories and dreams