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Things
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Potpourri
100
The protagonist of JGHG.
Who is Joe Bonham?
100
Where Joe grew up.
What is Shale City, CO?
100
Bill Bonham's prized possession.
What is a really fancy fishing rod?
100
The reason Mike Birkman allows Joe to sleep in Kareen's bedroom.
What is the fact that he's going off to war, and this could be their last opportunity?
100
How Jose finally gets fired from the bakery.
What is knocking over a whole bunch of pies?
200
The protagonist's girlfriend.
Who is Kareen Birkman?
200
Where Joe's family moved.
What is Los Angeles, CA?
200
What caused the Mission guys to smell funny.
What is disinfectant or antiseptic?
200
The symbolism behind Joe's last camping trip with his dad.
What is coming of age?
200
The reason(s) Joe can't tell if he awake or asleep.
What is not having a voice with which to yell or eyes with which to see?
300
The main character's best "friend".
Who is Bill Harper?
300
Where Joe is in the present day.
What is an army hospital?
300
What Joe realizes he has lost in chapter 3.
What is the moonstone ring Kareen gave to him?
300
The cause for Joe's flashback to the railroad gang.
What is a feeling of sweltering heat?
300
The reason(s) Joe can't kill himself.
What is not being able to move or communicate with anyone?
400
The "Porto" Rican who tries to get fired from the bakery.
Who is Jose?
400
Where Joe and Howie worked one summer.
What is the railroad in the Uintah desert?
400
What causes Joe's nightmares.
What is the rat?
400
A symbol of a simpler lifestyle where people are only concerned with the local community and are able to live by working the land.
What is Joe's father's garden?
400
The people who make the wars and the people who fight them.
Who are the few (powerful people in a society) and the many (typical working folks)?
500
The aviator who brought the aero-plane to Shale City, looped-the-loop, and then died.
Who is Lincoln Beechy?
500
Where Bill Harper got killed (that lucky guy).
What is Belleau Wood in France?
500
What was said to be a "great instrument in making people understand one another, in making people love one another."
What is the airplane?
500
Why no one can speak for the dead.
What is the fact that no living person knows what it's like to be dead?
500
The local stud in Los Angeles who drives that sweet roadster.
Who is Glen Hogan?
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