The Things They Carried
Alpha Company Men
Deaths
Symbols
Miscellaneous
100
Tranquilizers and marijuana
What is Ted Lavender?
100
Made vulgar jokes and played pranks on the men
Who is Azar?
100
Sank into s***-field; had to be pulled out by five men
Who is Kiowa?
100
The intangible items the men carry with them (name 2)
What is grief, fear, love, memories?
100
How you keep the dead alive
What is storytelling?
200
Letters and a picture of Martha
Who is Jimmy Cross?
200
The Lieutenant who blamed the death of one of his men on his daydreaming
Who is Jimmy Cross?
200
Died of brain tumor at age 9
Who is Linda?
200
American arrogance in Vietnam
Who is Mary Anne?
200
O’Brien’s reason for not running away to Canada
What is embarrassment and cowardice?
300
The second medic of the company who fails to treat O'Brien for shock
Who is Bobby Jorgenson?
300
Survived the war but felt he had no purpose at home
Who is Norman Bowker?
300
The “slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty”
What is All the faceless, murdered Vietnamese?
300
What a war story is really about
What is love/memory/sorrow/“sisters who never write back and people who never listen”?
400
M&M's and comics
Who is Rat Kiley?
400
Got in a fight over a pocket knife (name two)
Who is Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?
400
Stepped on landmine while playing with Rat Kiley
Who is Curt Lemon?
400
Lady who tells O’Brien she likes his baby buffalo story, but that he should find new stories to tell
What is American ignorance concerning the truth?
400
Characteristics of a true war story (list three)
What is Makes the stomach believe, never moral, never instructs, Unbelievable, etc.?
500
Girlfriend's pantyhose
Who is Henry Dobbins?
500
The soldier who blames Kiowa's death on the lieutenant for setting up in a dangerous place
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
500
Shot through the head, “zapped while zipping”
Who is Ted Lavender?
500
American-"Big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly…drawn toward sentimentality.”
Who is Henry Dobbins?
500
The soldier's greatest fear
What is "the fear of blushing?"
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