Character Quotes P1
Main defense lawyer for Dawson and Downey; he is “treading water for the three years he’s gotta serve, just kinda laying low till he can get out and get a real job.”
Who is: Daniel Kaffee?
Name of the lawyer “with no responsibilities here whatsoever”.
Who is: Sam Weinberg?
What does the acronym AWOL stand for?
(half points for summation)
Absent Without Official Leave: unauthorized absence from duty.
What is the term for a short story or account of an incident?
What is: an anecdote?
What is it called when a writer deliberately presents ideas or words in patterns of three- based upon the fact that people remember things in threes?
What is: The Rule of Three?
Name of the character who has “heat exhaustion” and is willing to share information about a “member of [his] unit” who “illegally discharged his weapon into Cuban territory” in exchange for being transferred off the base.
Who is: William Santiago?
An attorney who is a “real go-getter. Someone who possesses not only the legal skill but a familiarity with the inner workings of the military and a singular passion for justice”.
3. Who is: Joanne Galloway?
What does JAG stand for?
(Half credit for what do they do?)
Judge Advocate General aka: the military's legal department/internal affairs/handle court-martials.
What is the term for a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work outside of the text?
What is: an allusion?
How does the following passage capture a character shift?
KAFFEE: Kendrick gave them an order.
JO: What do we do now?
KAFFEE: Find Jack Ross.
Kaffee was not invested in Dawson and Downey's possible innocence, until this moment. Once Kaffee understands Marines' mentality on obeying orders, he softens his assuredness in their guilt.
Name of the Marine who told Dawson to “Get your house in order,” quoted the Bible, and said that someone died “because he had no honor.”.
Who is: James Kendrick?
Insists on “living by a code, sir. Either I was right or I was wrong. I don’t make deals”.
2. Who is: Dawson?
Describe the importance of a "Code Red" in "A Few Good Men".
It is an unofficial term describing punishment/hazing within military units. In this case, a Code Red was an order led out by two marines that resulted in the death of a third marine.
What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things that is explored in-depth (often, across the entire work)?
What is: an extended metaphor?
Use the diction to identify the tone of each character across this interaction.
DAWSON: Do you think we're guilty?
KAFFEE: I think you'd lose.
DAWSON: You're such a coward, I can't believe they let you wear a uniform.
The diction selected by Kaffee as a response to Dawson's question, reveals his priorities of winning/losing in the courtroom. Kaffee views the outcome of sentencing as the utmost important factor.
Dawson, upholds honor as primary compass. He followed an order, which holds honor and absolves of guilt. His diction highlights his view of Kaffee being a disgrace for not believing the same.
Name of the Marine who worried about the “Spiderman’s and some Batman’s sittin’ in my footlocker”.
Who is: Downey?
Name of the Marine who wanted to transfer Santiago from Cuba.
Who is: Markinson?
Order the characters' ranks, lowest to highest ranked. [Kaffee, Markinson, Galloway, Jessep]
Highest: Jessep
Markinson
Galloway
Lowest: Kaffee
What is a similar term for an author's motivation? In other words, the term includes what compelled the author to write.
What is: exigence?
Identify Jessep's primary motivation is stating these words during the time Kaffee is interviewing him?
"I eat my breakfast 80 yards away from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me" (43).
Jessep will not be intimidated (& aims to intimidate); additionally, he is highlight how little outsiders know about the actual risks of being on Guantanamo Bay.
Who is the character who states: "I hate Internal affairs..and you are a woman."
Who is: Whitaker?
Name of the character who says “Colonel Jessep’s star is on the rise. They're giving me a lot of room to spare him, embarrassment.”
Who is: Jack Ross?
List the Marine's CODE, as stated by Dawson.
Hint: four.
Unit
Corps
God
Country
What does SOAPStone stand for when it comes to evaluating rhetoric? [Hint: 6 words]
Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Subject
Tone
Why does Jessep describe Dawson & Downey as "smothering a grenade" (45)?
The fall-out implications reach well beyond these two Marines. Jessep is implying the two ought to take the fall for the Corps, to protect further damage.