The Basics
The author of The Things They Carried and current hometown?
Who is Tim O'Brien and what is Belmont, MA
The intangible items that the men carry with them (name two)
What is grief, fear, ghosts, love?
The year and season Tim O'Brien was drafted to go to war
What is 1969
Got in a fight over a pocketknife (2 names)
Who are Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?
O'Brien's reason for not running away to Canada when he had the chance
What is pride/cowardice/fear of being embarassed?
The literary device used to go from one timeline to another within the story?
Ex) Present day --> to war---> childhood
What is Flashback?
The soldier who made tasteless jokes and played pranks on the men.
Hint: After one prank he stated "For christ sakes, I'm just a boy."
Who is Azar?
What simile was used to describe the nature of war in the chapter "spin"?
What is "war is like a ping-pong ball"?
The biggest man in Alpha Company and his role in the platoon.
Who is Henry Dobbins and what is the machine gunner?
Characteristics of a true war story (list two)
What is never moral, difficult to separate what really happened from what seemed to happen, cannot be believed, never seems to end, do not generalize, there is not a point, makes you emotionally feel something.
What are the two symbols Tim O'Brien used to express the emotional pain of Curt Lemon's death in "How to Tell A True War Story"?
What is the baby buffalo, Rat Kiley's letter
A human thumb from Mitchell Sanders
Who is Norman Bowker?
Drew the number #17 and had to tunnel duty, also was the one who carried a slingshot.
Who is Lee Strunk?
Tim O'Brien's (the solider) hometown.
What is Worthington, Minnesota?