Plot & Structure
Clue: Structure that lets Walls jump between childhood and adulthood.
Answer: Nonlinear/episodic structure.
Clue: Brilliant but destructive alcoholic.
Answer: Rex Walls.
Clue: Symbol of Rex’s broken promises and shortsighted dreams.
Answer: The Glass Castle.
Clue: Tone Walls uses to describe trauma.
Answer: Matter‑of‑fact/detached.
Clue: War behind O’Brien’s book.
Answer: Vietnam War.
Clue: Jeannette sees her mother doing this at the memoir’s start.
Answer: Digging through a dumpster
Answer: Digging through a dumpster
Clue: Trait driving Jeannette’s independence.
Answer: Responsibility/self‑reliance.
Clue: Rex’s symbolic “gift.” to Jeanette
Answer: A star.
Clue: O’Brien repeats events with variations; that illustrates the what nature or life?
Answer: Cyclical .
Clue: Issue reflected in Walls’ memoir.
Answer: Poverty/economic inequality.
Clue: Chapter listing emotional and physical burdens.
Answer: “The Things They Carried.”
Clue: Soldier who carries a pebble.
Answer: Jimmy Cross.
Clue: Setting symbolizing moral ambiguity in the Song Tra Bong
Answer: The field and River
Clue: Sensory detail highlights contrast between innocence and this.
Answer: Harsh reality.
Clue: Free love and Anti-war Movement shaping O’Brien’s generation.
Answer: Counterculture/anti‑war movement. Hippies
Clue: Move marking shift to survival mode.
Answer: Moving to Welch.
Clue: His death becomes emotional anchor.
Answer: Kiowa.
Clue: Items representing emotional burdens.
Answer: The things they carried.
Clue: O’Brien and Walls reflecting on the events not just retelling?
Answer: Metafiction. Memoir
Clue: Expectation placed on men in wartime.
Answer: Masculine bravery/stoicism.
Clue: Technique that blurs truth and fiction.
Answer: Metafiction/story‑truth.
Clue: Parent who uses art to cope.
Answer: Rose Mary Walls.
Clue: Motif representing desire for stability.
Answer: Fire or rebuilding.
Clue: Strategy that makes readers question truth.
Answer: Unreliable narration.
Clue: Trend reflected in Walls’ parents’ lifestyle
Answer: Anti‑establishment/back‑to‑the‑land.