Characters
Misc.
Events/Themes
Items
Lenses
100
Lt. Cross's love interest.
Who is Martha?
100
Name of the river that floods.
What is The Song Tra Bong?
100
Names of the two men that end up with broken noses after a fight over a jackknife.
Who are Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk?
100
Carried by Dobbins. Represent comforts of home.
What are stockings?
100
In this lens, personal feelings and thoughts are valid to assess the work.
What is reader-response?
200
Large man who carries stockings around his neck.
Who is Henry Dobbins?
200
Equivalent to Navy Seals.
Who are the Green Barets?
200
Man who gives O'Brien $200 and silently mentors him on the Rainy River.
Who is Elroy Berdahl?
200
Carried by Ted Lavender to calm himself down and escape the horrors of war.
What are tranquilizers/drugs?
200
This lens explores the way different socio-economic groups of people are represented in a text.
What is Marxist?
300
Medic who replaced Kiley.
Who is Bobby Jorgenson?
300
Two men who visit a church and question their presence there.
Who are Dobbins and Kiowa?
300
Theme seen throughout the novel. Gives soldiers a way to cope with their grief and guilt.
What is storytelling?
300
Emotion carried by all soldiers, especially for presence in Vietnam and for casualties.
What is guilt?
300
This lens can be used to focus on the role Mary Anne plays when she visits Mark Fossie.
What is gender/feminist?
400
Blames Cross for Kiowa's death.
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
400
Kid from elementary school who made fun of Linda.
Who is Nick Veenhof?
400
This theme is scene in Mark Fossie and Mary Anne Bell, as well as all of the other young soldiers.
What is innocense corrupted/innocense lost?
400
Distract Lt. Cross and later get burned.
What are picutres of Martha?
400
A hero's journey is an example of this lens.
What is archetypal?
500
Careless thrill-seeker.
Who is Curt Lemon?
500
"One eye was shut, the other was a star-shaped hole" describes this person.
Who is the man O'Brien killed?
500
After Lemon's death, this soldier shoots and tortures a baby water buffalo.
Who is Rat Kiley?
500
Figurative item carried by all soldiers after the war. Haunting.
What are memories?
500
Seeing the soldiers as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be looking at them through this lens.
What is psychological?
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