The Things They Carried by Ethan Geier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c Ethan Geier en-us 2021-10-15 17:16:09 UTC 2021-11-16 18:25:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Tim O'Brien- author ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836854615 Time is the author and a vietnam war veteran]]> 2021-10-22 17:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836854615 Quotes that are memorable or stick with me ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836855965 "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)]]> 2021-10-22 17:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836855965 Characters ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836859759 Lt. Jimmy Cross
Ted lavender (dead zapped while zipping) 
Kiowa
Martha
Norman Bower
Mitchell Sanders
Rat Keily]]> 2021-10-22 17:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836859759 Why did they keep repeating everything about ted lavenders death? ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836861323 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]]> 2021-10-22 17:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836861323 The actual things they carried and the emotional things ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836862508 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]]> 2021-10-22 17:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836862508 Whats the deal with jimmy cross and martha? ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836863089 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]]> 2021-10-22 17:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836863089 The author's use (or lack thereof) proper grammar ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836865760 He uses run on sentences to convey a sense of panic or fear (pg 18, "Now and then...")]]> 2021-10-22 17:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1836865760 Who is the 'me'- who is the narrator ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842472535 Maybe tim O'brien?- said he was a writer, the narrator fraught in the war with jimmy cross]]> 2021-10-25 17:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842472535 This chapter uses quotation marks to show dialogue (unlike the things they carried) ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842475053 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.]]> 2021-10-25 17:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842475053 this chapter takes place after the war ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842485595 did this conversation lead to the writing of "the things they carried"]]> 2021-10-25 17:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842485595 martha didn't love jimmy ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842494104 she may have been a lesbian ]]> 2021-10-25 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842494104 what is the narrator not supposed to mention? ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842535509 Ted lavenders death? Jimmy cross feels responsible for this. JC's crying?

"No i wont ]]> 2021-10-25 17:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1842535509 The narrator is confirmed to be Tim O'brien ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845714377 2021-10-26 17:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845714377 Why is Azar so Azar? ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845719238 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]]> 2021-10-26 17:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845719238 Repetition of lines ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845725949 "Im forty three years old and running out"]]> 2021-10-26 17:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845725949 Wow- that last paragraph sure seems important. ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845730423 2021-10-26 17:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845730423 Norman Bowker's Story... ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845736581 Relatable experience parents/others wanting some show of accomplishment ]]> 2021-10-26 17:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845736581 it sounded like yim killed someone (pg. 36) hand grenade, slim dead, dainty young man saying he had no choice ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845747085 2021-10-26 17:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1845747085 big ideas/possible themes to pay attention to for the rest of the book... ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1852050313 -nature - sense of vietnam the country 
-how twisted/traumatic the war experience can be 
-coping 
-stories/storytelling]]> 2021-10-28 17:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1852050313 immediate reactions... ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1854484336 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.]]> 2021-10-29 17:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1854484336 Elroy Berdahl ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859351689 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 ]]> 2021-11-01 17:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859351689 Structure of this chapter is pretty straight forward. It is structured in a more chronological, easy to follow way. ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859354227 2021-11-01 17:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859354227 Pre war story ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859354778 2021-11-01 17:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859354778 Tims river hallucination ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859366512 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 ]]> 2021-11-01 17:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859366512 Big ideas in the chapter ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859378321 -  moral indecision (tim decides to go to war)
-  I was a coward i went to war]]> 2021-11-01 17:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859378321 People were stealing and causing fis fights ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859387282 2021-11-01 17:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859387282 There were amny people that sat for ours and stared at the fights. ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859388163 2021-11-01 17:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1859388163 boring no need to type ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879092448 2021-11-09 18:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879092448 very intersting and caught my ear when listening to it ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879094271 2021-11-09 18:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879094271 she thought she was innocent and she saw things she never saw ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879105727 2021-11-09 18:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879105727 many people had culture shocks moving places ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879113034 2021-11-09 18:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879113034 found herself at veitman going away from the "norms" ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879114200 2021-11-09 18:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1879114200 He talks about the 2 different types of truths ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1894868714 2021-11-16 18:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1894868714 the chapter talk very deeply on a lot of the topics the book has talked about ethangeier https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1894884866 2021-11-16 18:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ethangeier/m2i0r851epahaa7c/wish/1894884866