https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4 Made with mirth en-us 2017-04-20 00:36:17 UTC 2025-09-27 05:42:15 UTC hello@padlet.com lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167154981 "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College" pg. 1
This informs the reader of the character Martha and gives the reader knowledge of past events ]]> 2017-04-20 00:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167154981 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167155455 "He would imagine romantic camping trips into the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there." pg. 1
This informs the reader that Jimmy has a deep passion for Martha.]]> 2017-04-20 00:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167155455 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167159036 "The first was a Kodacolor snapshot signed Love, though he knew better." pg. 4
The concrete subject love helps convey the abstract concept of love or even loneliness because even though Lieutenant Jimmy was deeply in love with Martha he knew she didn't and would not feel the same. 

]]> 2017-04-20 01:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167159036 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167411233 "She was a virgin, he was almost. She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roomates and midterms exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virgina Woolf. She often quoted lines of poetry; she never mentioned the war, expect to say, Jimmy, take care of yourself." pg. 1
When describing Martha's actions the author is able to reveal that Martha is charming and polite.

]]> 2017-04-21 03:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167411233 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167412472 "Lieutenant Cross remembered toughing that left knee. A dark theater, he remembered and the movie was Bonnie and Cylde, and Martha wore a tweed skirt, and during the final scene, when he touched her knee, she turned and looked at him in a sad, sober way that made him pull his hand back, but he would always remember the feel of the tweed skirt and the knee beneath it and the sound of the gunfire that killed Bonnie and Clyde, how embarrassing it was, how slow and oppressive." pg. 4 
When this setting is introduced Lieutenant Cross' mood changes from being calm to being overly obessive of Martha's knee. ]]> 2017-04-21 03:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167412472 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167413770 "In the first week of April before Lavender died, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross received a good-luck charm from Martha. It was a simple pebble, an ounce at most." pg.8
When the pebble is mentioned it is mentioned as a "good-luck charm" seeing that it is also given to Lieutenant Cross from Martha, the women he deeply loved, we can infer that the pebble gave him courage through the rough times.



]]> 2017-04-21 03:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167413770 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167414603 "Henry Dobbins carried his girlfriend's pantyhose wrapped around his neck as a comforter." By this action you can conclude that Henry Dobbins is lonely.]]> 2017-04-21 04:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167414603 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167590845 "Lieutenant Cross gazed at the tunnel. But he was not there. He was buried in the white sand at the Jersey shore. They were pressed together , and the pebble in his mouth was her tongue. He was smiling." pg. 12 
When the author introduces this setting it creates a relaxing, romantic, and soothing atmosphere for Jimmy. ]]> 2017-04-21 21:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167590845 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167591288 "Sanders wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across to Norman Bowker. There was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy's head, watched the flies scatter, and said, it's like with that old TV show-Paladin. Have gun, will travel." pg. 13
The actions that Sanders commits gives him the characteristic of thoughtless from the time he wraps a dead boy's thumb in toilet paper to when he kicks his head. ]]> 2017-04-21 21:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167591288 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167591843 "They imagined the muzzle against the flesh. So easy: squeeze the trigger and blow away a toe. They imagined it. They imagined the quick, sweet pain, then the evacuation to Japana, then a hospital with warms beds and cute geisha nurses." pg. 22
When this setting is introduced it is seen that the men change their tone and describe japan as a war zone and would rather be in a hospital then fighting in the war.

]]> 2017-04-21 21:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167591843 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592118 "They were flying. The weights fell off; there was nothing to bear. They laughed and held on tight, feeling the cold slap of wind and altitude, soaring, thinking It's over, I'm gone!" pg. 22
The concrete subject "Jumbo Jets" helps demostrate the abstract concept of freedom. They feel like the weight of the world is lifted up off of them when flying in the air. ]]> 2017-04-21 21:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592118 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592475 "I would go to the war- I would kill and maybe die- because I was embarrassed not to. That was the sad thing. And so I sat in the bow of the boat cried. It was loud mpw. Loud, hard crying." pg. 59
The concrete subject "war" brings many negative emotions to Jimmy Cross when thinking about it. He feels sorrowness and loneliness. ]]> 2017-04-21 21:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592475 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592927 "For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said Dear Jesus and flopped around on the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and to God and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die. pg. 19 As scary as being in war might be these men are able to find the courage to go through all the struggles even though they might feel like breaking down at sometimes they know they must keep fighting. Therefore the theme shown in this is courage.]]> 2017-04-21 21:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167592927 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167593380 "While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Rat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there. Nothing much ever happened." pg.92
Serving in the war takes everything away from you. To the point where you get use to the isolation. So it makes sens that Rat feels safe in an isolated and vulnerable place because it describeds him. The theme seen is this quote is isolation.

]]> 2017-04-21 22:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167593380 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167593564 " It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do." pg. 25 
Being strong is very hard especially when you feel forced to do it. When this is said these men are seen as courageous and worthy men. The theme seen in this is courage. ]]> 2017-04-21 22:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167593564 lzapata18 https://padlet.com/lzapata18/xghdtocr3qs4/wish/167593776 "I couldn't get my breath; I couldn't stay afloat; I couldn't tell which way to swim. A hallucination, I suppose, but it was as real as anything I would ever feel. I saw my parents calling to me from the far shoreline. I saw my brother and sister , all the townsfolk, the mayor and the entire Chamber of Commerce and all my old teachers and girlfriends and high school buddies." pg. 58
Slowly dying and needing help is seen in this. While trying to survive he thinks about everyone is his life even though no one is actually there. Therefore this is seen as isolation.

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