The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien- DUE: Thursday 3/26 by Midnight -The Running BOARD - Assessment - Participation - Running Doc
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
ASSIGNMENT IS DUE on the Running Doc by 3/26
Work on it TODAY!!
Tim O'Brien The Author
- Born in 1946 Minnesota
- Drafted in 1969
- Served in the US Army Vietnam WAR as Infantry 1969-1970
- 1973-74 Worked as a News Reporter for the Washington Post Paper
- Studied at Harvard Post War
- Author that mostly tells stories of War Life & Post War Vietnam
READ - " The Things They Carried" & "Love " Pages 1-19
IN 2 PARAGRAPHS - Each Paragraph Should have a topic sentence and a Concrete Example followed by a quote and in text citation.
Analyze The Love Jimmy Has For Martha in the first story.
What type of Love is it? Does the setting have anything to do with this love? How does it impact the main character Jimmy?
2. Why does he blame himself for loving Martha more than his men? Provide an example, quote and in text citation.
3. O'Brien is famous for saying that "Story telling is the essential human story". What type of human story does he tell in both stories?
4. If you had to choose two themes for this story what do you suppose it might be? BE CREATIVE- be ready to support it in class.
THE STORY
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