Writing Down The Bones
An object
Ted lavender
Where was Kenny left?
In the bed of the track
How old is Connie?
15
What was the main rule for this essay?
To write about an impactful personal experience
What did you write about when asked to look outside and write about an image in the writing practices?
Free response (just for participation)
According to Tim, none of the stories are war stories, but?
Love stories
What food did Tub take hunting?
Cookies and sandwiches
Identify a motif in the story. (reoccurring symbol)
Music
What was Mary Anne's reasoning for becoming one with the land?
Mary Anne falls in love with Vietnam. Embodying the jungle, she becomes more of a natural soldier than any other unit's other soldiers.
What was your favorite writing practice, and what did you write about?
Free response (just for participation)
Who carried comic books and M&M’s?
Rat Kiley
Where did they stop on the way to the hospital?
Tavern
It suggests that her parents did not care where she was going or where she was, telling us that she doesn't have a close relationship with her parents.
What message did Tim O'Brien want to portray with fictional stories with true events?
Convey the complex emotional and psychological realities of war.
In chapter Go Further, pgs. 133-134 What did it imply for the writing practice?
Go somewhere else to write/ unique setting.
Who got in a fight over a pocket knife?
Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk
How is Tub characterized in the beginning?
Characterized as sensitive and is the one that is picked on by his friends
Name one theme from the story.
1. Appearances and reality
2. Identity and the search for self
3. victim and victimization
4. Women fearing the power of men
Who wrote “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer day?”
William Shakespeare
In the chapter, why do I write? Pgs. 145-149 What is one reason/example she gives?
Because she’s a jerk
Because she wants the boys to be impressed
So her mother will like her
So her father will hate her
No one listens to her when she speaks
So she can start a revolution
In order to write an American novel and make a million dollars
Because she’s neurotic
Because she’s the reincarnation of William Shakespeare
Because she has something to say
Because she has nothing to say
What did the soldiers specifically decide to do when they saw the old man who died from the airstrike Lieutenant Jimmy Cross approved?
They decided to greet him in various ways.
What is the shift between the first part of the story and the second part of the story?
The power is in the hands of kenny and Fran, and then shifts to Tub holding the power and
What is the symbolism of the kitchen?
It's associated with her parental restrictions, the life of her housewife mother, and the life that awaits her future.
What do Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak Mean?
Can be interpreted in many ways…