Miscellanous
Kills the baby buffalo
Who is Rat Kiley?
Gives O'Brien his space to make a decision about the war
Who is Elroy Berdahl?
Rat Kiley's best friend
Who is Curt Lemon?
Mary Anne was last seen disapering into this location
What is the jungle?
Norman Bowker's way of death
What is he hanged himself/suicide?
This is the item that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries that symbolizes his love and distraction
What are Martha's letters/photos?
O'Brien was a student at this Minnesota college before being drafted
Story from the book narrated by Rat Kiley
What is Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong?
Mary Ann liked to do this during her first days in Vietnam
What is to roam around the compound and ask questions?
Writes a 17-page letter to this person a few years after returning from the war.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
"What would you do? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leabing behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?"
Who is Tim O'Brien?
The reason O'Brien writes
What is to process trauma and guilt?
Things he carried
What are M&Ms and morphine?
Number of children Mary Ann wanted to have with Mark Fossie
What is three?
Bowker feels guilty over the death of this soldier
Who is Kiowa?
The emotion that motivates many soldiers to go to war and continue fighting?
What is shame?
The distinction that O'Brien makes between happening truth and this type of truth
What is story truth?
Writes a letter to this person after the death of Curt Lemon
Who is Curt Lemon's sister?
The item that symbolizes Mary Anne's transformation into something wild and dangerous
What is the necklace of human tongues?
Does this while driving around a lake near his parents home on a 4th of July
What is having flashbacks about the war?
Number of named soldiers that died during and after the war
What is four?
O'Brien feels guilty about killing this person and imagines what his life would have been like
Who is the boy with the star-shaped hole in his eye?
He does this to get out of the war
What is shots himself on the foot?
Her transformation is a symbol of this
What is loss of innocence?
Bowker thinks he could have earned this medal if he had acted differently
What is the Silver Star?