The state where the story takes place.
What is Nebraska?
The symbol that the story consistently returns to.
What is water?
The name of the high school that Phuc attends.
What is Carlisle High?
The names of the Burdens hired hands.
Who are Jake and Otto?
A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation.
What is Plight?
What is a snake?
The name of the town that Edward buys.
What is Spectre?
This is William's profession in the movie.
What is a journalist?
The name of the character whom Edward convinces to leave Ashton.
Who is Karl the Giant?
Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something.
What is incongruous?
This is the country where Antonia's family is from.
What is the Czech Republic?
The war that Edward fought in.
What is the Korean War?
Phuc's girlfriend's name.
What is Molly?
This character promised never to hit Phuc again.
Who is his mom?
A person's fixed or allotted period of work.
What is a stint?
Where Jim goes to college.
What is Harvard?
Who/What did Edward save from the house fire?
What is a dog?
The item that gets stolen from Phuc's cousin early in an early chapter of the memoir.
What is a bike?
The name of the boy in the prologue of Sigh, Gone.
Who is Hoang Nguyen?
A minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character.
What is a foible?
The name of the play Jim sees with Lena.
What is Camille?
This is Edward's primary concern on his death bed.
What is his son?
Phuc temporarily changes his name to this.
What is Peter?
She takes Phuc to see The Importance of Being Earnest.
Who is Mrs. Krebs?
Using or expressed in more words than are needed.
What is Verbose?