Characters
Narrator of the story
Who is Tim O'Brien?
carried more than one burden
What are physical and mental burdens?
symbolizes soldiers’ grief and guilt over their horrible actions during the war
What is the dead young Vietnamese soldier?
O'Brien arrives in Vietnam, working with the Alpha Company
When is early 1969?
the time span of the book
What is twenty years?
Leader of squadron
Who is Jimmy Cross?
They tease a crack jokes with each other, but, in the end, they are there to condole each other in hard times
What is friendship?
In some parts it represented beauty and asylum, but in others it would represent a tomb and brutality.
What is the land?
November 1869
What is O'Brien is shot for the first time during his time at war?
O'Brien details...
What is characters?
What is rememberings of the past?
Sustains the most psychological change
Who is Rat Kiley?
The soldiers never know exactly why they were sent to Vietnam to fight the war. They thought they were killing people for no reason
What is war is meaningless?
Literal and metaphorical. The equipment and the burdens of war that weigh the soldiers down.
What is the things the carried?
Rat Kiley tortures baby water buffalo; shoots off different body parts
When is mid August 1970?
Date The Things They Carried was released
When is March 1990?
Most caring and compassionate member of the group
Who is Kiowa?
Telling the stories of these people provided a way to keep them alive
What is the log living effect of death?
Represents an almost rebirth for when O’Brien overcomes his cowardice and decides to return home to go fight in the war.
What is the rainy river?
October 1870
What is Kiowa is killed; sinks into waste field along the Song Tra Bong?
What is, "the war, the struggle, the burden?"
Character that starts as the most innocent and ends the most afraid
Who is Rat Kiley?
showing no fear, longing for love, responsibility, and keep their reputation
What are the soldiers mental burdens?
Innocence and youth of the soldiers before the war and how they were overcome by the horrors of war that have torn their sanity apart. Thus making them violent creatures and embodiments of war itself.
What is the baby water buffalo?
June 1969
What is O'Brien kills a Vietnamese soldier, his first recorded kill during his time in Vietnam?
Amount of bodies Tim carried off war grounds
What is 27?