The Basics
What They Carried
Alpha Company Men
Deaths
Themes
100
The author of The Things They Carried
Who is Tim O'Brien?
100
Letters and a picture of Martha
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
The Lieutenant who blamed the death of one of his men on his daydreaming
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
Sank into the muck of the village latrine; five men had to pull his body out
Who is Kiowa?
100
The intangible items that the men carry with them (name two)
What is grief, fear, ghosts, love?
200
The Vietnam War occured during these years
What is 1959-1975?
200
New Testament and distrust of the whiteman
Who is Kiowa
200
The soldier who made tasteless jokes and played pranks on the men
Who is Azar?
200
Stepped on a land mine while playing with Rat Kiley
Who is Curt Lemon?
200

O'Brien's reason for not running away to Canada when he had the chance

What is shame/embarassment?

300
The name of the platoon that Tim O'Brien was in during the war before getting shot
What is Alpha Company?
300
Girlfriend's pantyhose
Who is Henry Dobbins?
300
The original medic of the company when O'Brien first gets shot
Who is Rat Kiley?
300
Shot through the head in Vietnam - "zapped while zipping" (page 16)
Who is Ted Lavender?
300

This is how you can keep the dead alive

What is telling stories? 

400
The American Army's enemy (who were they fighting?) in the Vietnam War?
What is the Viet Cong?
400
Tranquilizers and dope
Who is Ted Lavender?
400
The soldier who blames Kiowa's death on the lieutenant for setting up in a dangerous place
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
400
Survived the war, but felt he had no purpose back at home
Who is Norman Bowker?
400
Norman Bowker's request to Tim after the war
What is writing a story about how people are really affected by the war?
500

Type of fighting/warfare of the Vietnamese forces

What is guerrilla warfare/ambushing

500
Comic books and M&Ms
Who is Rat Kiley?
500
Got in a fight over a pocketknife (2 names)
Who are Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?
500
Died of a brain tumor when O'Brien was young
Who is Linda?
500
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, and never about war.
M
e
n
u