Author Background
The war author Tim O'Brien served in.
What is the Vietnam war (WWII)?
Got killed while playing toss with a smoke grenade.
Who is Curt Lemon
Representative of loss of innocence.
What is Baby Water Buffalo.
Kiowa had a chaotic death in which location?
What is the Mudfield/Swampfield
The decisions O'brien faced in the chapter On The Rainy River.
What is going to war or fleeing to Canada?
The writing style and/or theme of The Things They Carried.
What is memory, imagination, and burden of war memories?
Killed a baby water buffalo
Who is Rat Kiley
Representative of comfort, feminitity, and superstition.
What is Nylson Stockings.
Elroy takes Tim O'Brien where to make his final decision regarding his participation in the war
What is the Rainy River
The slang term for carrying/walking.
what is humping?
Mental health disorders O'Brien suffered from...
What is post-traumatic stress disorder, depression?
Wears a human tongue necklace.
Who is Mary Anne
A physical and emotional boundry symbol.
What is The Rainy River.
Norman Bowker drives a loop around where?
O'brien's job before he was drafted into the war.
what is a pig declotter?
The year The Things They Carried was published.
When is 1990?
Burned the pictures of Martha in the first chapter.
Who is Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
Representing the mental and emotional confusion within war.
What is The Fog.
Mary Anne joins the Green Berets and secretly goes on ambush missions where?
What is the vietnamese Jungle
The word Rat Kiley refers to women as.
What is a cooze?
The year O'Brien was born.
When is 1946?
The little girl who died from a tumor at the end of the novel.
Who is Linda
Symbolic of intangible burdens in fear, responsibility, memories, etc.
What is Items/Things Soldiers Carried.
After surviving the war and suffering from PTSD, Norman Bowker took his life where?
What is the YMCA locker in his hometown in Iowa
The injury the old Vietnamese man sustained in the chapter The Lives of The Dead
What is his arm got blown off?