Characters
Events
Deaths
Who carried..
Miscellaneous
100
Thinks war is stupid, copes by writing, protagonist
Tim O'Brien
100
What does Tim O'Brien do when he receives the draft notice?
Runs away to Top Top Lodge in Minnesota
100
Cancer, Brain tumor
Linda
100
Girlfriend's stocking and machine gun
Henry Dobbins
100
Author of book
Tim O'Brien
200
Strong influence on O'Brien, kind, likable soldier, devoted friend, picks lice off his body
Mitchell Sanders
200
What Norman Bowker does at the YMCA
Kills himself
200
Stepped on a land mine while playing with Rat Kiley
Curt Lemon
200
Morphine, malaria tablets, comic books, M&Ms.
Rat Kiley
200
Where O'Brien worked before going to war
meatpacking factory
300
Young & scared in the alpha company ,pops tranquilizers, dies first
Ted Lavender
300
What pact did Jensen and Strunk make?
If one had a wheelchair wound the other would kill him or would not try to save him
300
Survived the war but felt like he had no purpose back home
Norman Bowker
300
New Testament, distrust of the white man, hunting hatchet
Kiowa
300
The American's enemy
Viet Cong
400
The man who saved O'Brien's life, quiet & kind, proprietor of the Tip Top Lodge
Elroy Berdahl
400
Why is Rat Kiley upset with his best friend's sister?
He wrote a heartfelt letter to her about her brother, his best friend, after his death and waited 2 months but she never ever replied
400
Sank into muck, the soldiers went looking for his body for hours, took 5 men to pull him out
Kiowa
400
compass, code books, and the responsibility for his men along with letters from a girl
Jimmy Cross
400
When did the Vietnam War occur?
1959-1975
500
No desire to be a team leader, doesn't care about war, unsure of everything he does, has guilt every time one of his men die
Jimmy Cross
500
How does Mary Anne's story end/how did she "leave"?
One morning she walked into the mountains and never came back, no body or equipment was ever found
500
stepped on a rigged mortar round, died in transit because of blood loss
Lee Strunk
500
Superstition, fear, guilt, respect for the power of the things they carry, the fear of embarrassment & of blushing
All the soldiers
500
Characteristics of a true war story
Never a moral, difficult to separate what really happened from what seemed to happen, cannot be believed, never seems to end