https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0 By TimO'Breien en-us 2018-03-27 13:11:53 UTC 2018-04-03 19:44:15 UTC hello@padlet.com estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/246483886 2018-03-27 13:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/246483886 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/246890699 He was the true audience. He was a witness, like God, or like the gods, who look on in absolute silence as we live our lives, as we make our choices or fail to make them. (On the Rainy River.74)]]> 2018-03-28 13:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/246890699 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247038886 This simile is a reference to the weight that war
puts on the shoulders on soldiers all of the fear
pain, death, screaming, disease, etc.
Metaphor
"But it was more than a plane, it was a real bird, a big
sleek, silver bird with feathers and talons and high screeching."
Compares the plane picking them up and taking them away to the immediate relief and freedom from the war.
(pg 23)]]> 2018-03-28 18:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247038886 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045727
"At night, sometimes, Lieutenant Cross wondered who had taken the picture, 
because he
knew she had boyfriends, 
because he
loved her so much, and 
because he
could see the shadow of the picture taker spreading out against the brick wall," (12).
Colloquialism 
O'Brien uses the term, "humped," to mean "to carry something" (3). 
Diction: Obscene
"Oh shit, the guy's dead," (13). 
Pg(7

]]> 2018-03-28 18:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045727 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045828 Description of the Vietnamese soldier who Tim O'Brien killed 
*Star shaped hole 
*Description of the man Tim O'Brien killed
*Color of the wound
(pg 10)]]> 2018-03-28 18:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045828 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045920 You just don't know," she said. "You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don't know… Sometimes I want to eat this place. […] That's how I feel. It's like this appetite. I get scared sometimes—lots of times—but it's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I'm out at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark—I'm on fire almost—I'm burning away into nothing—but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can't feel like that anywhere else." (Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.6)]]> 2018-03-28 18:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247045920 estr479 https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247046007 "The poor bastard just flat f*ck fell."
This alliteration helps convey a sense of the drama ,chaos, and dispair of the war.
"Smooth to the touch, it was a milky-white color
with flecks of orange and violet, oval-shaped, like
a miniture egg.
pg(08)]]> 2018-03-28 18:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/estr479/sg3r21ady9u0/wish/247046007