Characters
Deaths
Underlining Themes
Who Lines is it Anyways
Events
100
The leader of the Alpha Company. Martha wrote him letters.
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
He was shot though the head in Vietnam- "He fell like a sack of potatoes." (O'Brien 17)
Who is Ted Lavender
100
O'Brien's reason for not running away to Canada when he had the chance
What is cowardice/pride?
100
"Well, I did- I burned it. After Lavender, I couldn't... this is a new one. Martha gave it to me herself."
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
What Tim O'Brien does when he received his draft notification letter in the mail
What is ran to the border of Canada and the U.S.
200
He uses tranquilizers to calm himself down
Who is Ted Lavender?
200
He stepped on a mine while playing catch with Rat Kiley.
Who is Curt Lemon?
200

The underlining meaning of the items they carry (name two)

What is the emotional as well as the physical weight the soldiers carry?

200
"They marched for the sake of the march. They plodded along slowly, dumbly, leaning forward against the heat, unthinking, all blood and bone, simple grunts, soldiering with their legs, toiling up the hills and down into the paddies and across the river and up again and down, just humping"
Who is Tim O'Brien?
200
What Norman Bowker did in the YMCA locker room
What is kill himself?
300
He wore his ex-girlfriends panty hose around his neck for good luck
Who is Henry Dobbins?
300
Five men had to pull his body out of thick mud from a village latrine
Who is Kiowa?
300
The main theme in the chapter "How to Tell a True War Story", when Mitchell Sanders tells a story concerning soldiers getting so paranoid listening on patrol that they start to hear strange noises
What is loneliness/isolation?
300

"did you ever kill anybody?"

Who is Kathleen?

300

What Rat Keily does after Curt Lemon died

What is torture a baby water buffalo?

400
He would pick lice off his body and send them in envelopes back to the draft board in the states.
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
400
He felt like he had no purpose after the war and hanged himself in the YMCA
Who is Norman Bowker?
400
Theme of the chapter "The Man I Killed", when O'Brien kills a young japanese man with a grenade
What is guilt?
400
"We got ourselves a nice mellow war today."
Who is Ted Lavender?
400

He mocks a young girl dancing in a village the platoon burned down

What disrespectful thing does Azar do?

500
He had a dentist pull out one of his teeth to avoid embarrassment.
Who is Curt Lemon?
500
She died of a brain tumor when O'Brien was young
Who is Linda?
500
What are characteristics of a true war story? (pick one)
What is never ending, never about war, difficult to separate what really happened from what seemed to happen, and cannot be believed?
500
"Hear that quiet, man? That quiet, just listen. There's your moral."
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
500
At a meatpacking plant popping blood clots in pigs with a water-gun
What is O'Brien's summer job before the war?
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