Characters
The Narrator of the story
Who is Obrien
The country Obrien thinks of planning to flee to.
What is Canada?
The university was Obrien supposed to attend.
Harvard
"I was a ______. I went to the war."
What is a coward?
O'brien believes ________ is standing up for what you believe rather than compromise your principles for fear of the consequences
What is Courage?
O'brien is afraid of disappointing these people.
Who is his friends and family
Obriens Home town.
Where is Worthington, Minnesota?
The amount of days Obrien stays at the Tip Top Lodge
What is 6 days
"It was a physical rupture - a _____-______-_____ feeling"
what is cracking and leaking and popping?
O'Brien is pressured by both physical and emotional _______.
What are Burdens?
The old Man in the tip top lodge.
who is Elroy Behdahl
The cafe in Obriens hometown.
Gobbler Cafe
The direction Obrien first drove. (north, east, south, west)
What is North
"It was a kind of __________. A moral split. I couldn't make up my mind. I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile."
what is schizophrenia
Obrien fears losing this
What is Love
The gender of O'Briens Unborn child.
What is a daughter/female?
The city in Canada Obrien imagines a Hotel to stay in.
Where is Winnipeg?
Obrien is afraid of walking away from this (hint: there are 5 things)
What is his life, his friends, his family, his history, everything that mattered to him?
"It was a _______ theory. It dispensed with all those bothersome little acts of daily courage"
what is comforting?
The theme O'brien showed when he had to consider his personal, familial and societal duties.
What is Responsibility?
The US president Obrien hallucinated towards the end of the story.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Obrien passed this heading to the tip top lodge at dusk.
Where is Bemidji?
The year the draft notice arrived
June 17th 1968
"All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the ______ of our youth."
What are heroes?
The aspect of himself O'Brien struggled with betraying.
what is Identity?