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Time is the author and a vietnam war veteran

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Quotes that are memorable or stick with me 

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Quotes that are memorable or stick with me 

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"They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried" (7)

"They carried the soldiers greatest fear, which was the fea of blushing" (20)

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Lt. Jimmy Cross
Ted lavender (dead zapped while zipping)
Kiowa
Martha
Norman Bower
Mitchell Sanders
Rat Keily

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Why did they keep repeating everything about ted lavenders death?

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Why did they keep repeating everything about ted lavenders death?

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Disbelief on the parts of the other soldiers - cant believe it happened

Foreshadowing? A death that connects the rest of the stories

Joke about it - they don't know how to handle his death

Kiowa felt as much relief as most did

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The actual things they carried and the emotional things

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The actual things they carried and the emotional things

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The things they carried:
Weapons, guns, protections, girlfriends, pictures, cars, beer, dope, planes, notes, letters

Emotional things: Love for things back home grief, guilt, shame, fear

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Whats the deal with jimmy cross and martha?

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Whats the deal with jimmy cross and martha?

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Jimmy is in love with Martha, but Martha is not in love with jimmy.

Martha sent jimmy a pebble jimmy uses it as his good luck charm.

Jimmy realizes his love for martha is interfering with his duty as a LT. In fact he goes as far as to say he hates her

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The author's use (or lack thereof) proper grammar

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The author's use (or lack thereof) proper grammar

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He uses run on sentences to convey a sense of panic or fear (pg 18, "Now and then...")

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Maybe tim O'brien?- said he was a writer, the narrator fraught in the war with jimmy cross

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This chapter uses quotation marks to show dialogue (unlike the things they carried)

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This chapter uses quotation marks to show dialogue (unlike the things they carried)

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Maybe narrator uses quotations to echo the fact he is not in war so he has time and structure that he didn't have in the war.

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did this conversation lead to the writing of "the things they carried"

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she may have been a lesbian

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what is the narrator not supposed to mention?

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what is the narrator not supposed to mention?

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Ted lavenders death? Jimmy cross feels responsible for this. JC's crying?

"No i wont

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The narrator is confirmed to be Tim O'brien 

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The narrator is confirmed to be Tim O'brien 

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Lamenting the soldier that ran out of ammo and strapping ted lavender's puppy to a mine and blowing it up

Im just a boy

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"Im forty three years old and running out"

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Wow- that last paragraph sure seems important.

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Wow- that last paragraph sure seems important.

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Relatable experience parents/others wanting some show of accomplishment

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it sounded like yim killed someone (pg. 36) hand grenade, slim dead, dainty young man saying he had no choice

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it sounded like yim killed someone (pg. 36) hand grenade, slim dead, dainty young man saying he had no choice

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big ideas/possible themes to pay attention to for the rest of the book... 

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big ideas/possible themes to pay attention to for the rest of the book... 

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-nature - sense of vietnam the country
-how twisted/traumatic the war experience can be
-coping
-stories/storytelling

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it was very emotional and it was written a lot better then all of the other ones were. He broke the 4th wall and he talked to the audience. It feels like someone is talking to me not that im reading a book.

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Well read, educated. Serves as tims host tip top lodge. Gives tim money- emergency fund - which tim doesn't take.

Knows what tim's situation is without asking or prying. He takes tim up to the reality of the situation- takes him 20 yards off the shore to canada

According to tim, elroy is resposible for saving tims life

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Structure of this chapter is pretty straight forward. It is structured in a more chronological, easy to follow way. 

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Structure of this chapter is pretty straight forward. It is structured in a more chronological, easy to follow way. 

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People cheering him on from each shoreline- some cheering for him yo go to canada, some cheering for im

His future wife, his unborn daughter, his sons, the slim dainty old man that he will kill. Brothers sisters high school buddies, chamber of commerace, jimmy cross, abe lincon

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-  moral indecision (tim decides to go to war)
-  I was a coward i went to war

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People were stealing and causing fis fights

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People were stealing and causing fis fights

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There were amny people that sat for ours and stared at the fights.

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There were amny people that sat for ours and stared at the fights.

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very intersting and caught my ear when listening to it

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very intersting and caught my ear when listening to it

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she thought she was innocent and she saw things she never saw

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she thought she was innocent and she saw things she never saw

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many people had culture shocks moving places 

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many people had culture shocks moving places 

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found herself at veitman going away from the "norms"

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found herself at veitman going away from the "norms"

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He talks about the 2 different types of truths 

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He talks about the 2 different types of truths 

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the chapter talk very deeply on a lot of the topics the book has talked about

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the chapter talk very deeply on a lot of the topics the book has talked about