settting
character
action
style
ideas
100
Besides the land of Vietnam, what is the other cultural setting involved in this story?
What is small town America?
100
How does Ted Lavender represent irony?
He is scared to die and even takes tranquilizers, yet is the first to die.
100
Norman Bowker drives around ___ to avoid talking?
What is the lake?
100
What is the narrative point of view of Chapter 1?
What is third person omniscient?
100
"They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak" represents the theme of ____
What is friendship/love?
200
"A true war story is never moral […] if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue" Is O'brien referring to the people not being moral or the war itself not being moral?
The war itself is not a moral concept
200
Who symbolizes the American ignorance of Vietnam
Who is Mary Anne?
200
Who finds Kiowa's body?
What is Norwan Bowker?
200
Why O'brien uses flashbacks and blurs the line between what actually happened and the truth
How does O'brien express the complexity of the Vietnam War?
200
What is the role of women in The Things They Carried?
What is the men idealize the women and use their presencein letters, photographs, and even their imagination as a kind of solace and reminder that a world does exist outside the atrocities of Vietnam
300
"I was Nam—the horror, the war" This quote helps make the __ world represent the ___ world
physical, emotional
300
Who represents wasted education
Who is Tim O'brien
300
In what chapter does Curt Lemon is killed by a booby-trap. Rat Kiley, his best friend, takes his emotions out on a baby water buffalo.
What is how to tell a true war story?
300
The combination of inspirational, beautiful sentences combined with sentences one hears in the school hallway sets the tone as _____ and the purpose of this is ____.
controversial, to relate to all audiences
300
"I swear to God, man, she's got on culottes. White culottes and this sexy pink sweater. There she is." (Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong) This quote shows the idea of ____
What is the naivety of Americans at home and displacement?
400
Soldiers often replace _______ with their own moral codes?
What is religion?
400
Who is a symbol of American decency, drowned in the sewage of the war?
Who is Kiowa?
400
What does O'brien almost going up to the Canadian border but then chickening out and returning home represent o, O'Brien didn't really work in a meatpacking plant the summer before he went to Vietnam, and he didn't go up to the Canadian border to try to get away from the war and then chicken out and return home. He can't get the nightmarish idea of slaughter out of his head—it's all he can think about—and so he thinks about running away. doesn't go to Canada.
What is a symbol of O'briens shaky mental state or O'brien being a coward?
400
Why O'brien includes curse words
What is a realistic effect?
400
O'Brien begins talking about this theme in the chapter titled 'How to Tell a True War Story'
What is the Subjection of Truth to Storytelling?
500
Where province was Tim O'Brien a foot soldier in?
What is the Quang Ngai Province?
500
Who emphasizes the importance of being decent to people in the chapter "Style"
Who is Henry Dobbins?
500
When O'Brien tells the über-short true war story about the guy who unnecessarily jumped on a mine for his friends in "How to Tell a True War Story," and all the soldiers have a conversation in the time between the mine going off and them actually dying, this shows that ____. Why does O'brien add this?
O'brien exaggerates some parts of his story to add humor and obscenity
500
Why is the action of the girl dancing a repeated idea/ what is the theme she represents?
What is an an optimistic symbol? She is graceful and meaningful, unlike the Vietnam war. She is dancing, while everything else around her is in destruction or is decaying. Perhaps she dances as an escape from her reality; perhaps she dances to deny her reality; or perhaps, as Azar says, she dances a ritual that gives meaning to what has happened.
500
Who represents the idea of personal responsibility: The loss of of American decency in war is everybody's fault
Who is Jimmy Cross and Norman Bowker?
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