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  Why is the act of listening so very important in The Things They Carried?

  Posted by mikanana on Oct 26, 2009 at 01:55 PM

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  Why does O'Brien choose to include the story about a young girl named Linda in the book The Things They Carried?

  Posted by asip4life on Oct 20, 2009 at 09:02 PM

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  Chapter 20 (The Ghost Soldiers) Was Tim right in wanting revenge against Bobby Jorgensen? explain

  Posted by koreanasian2 on Sep 27, 2009 at 05:22 PM

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  In O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," how is chronology used?  

  Posted by mllanos87 on Sep 27, 2009 at 10:50 AM

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  Chapter 7, what do you think really happened to the six man patrol at the listening post?

  Posted by iceprincessx3 on Sep 16, 2009 at 07:17 PM

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  Chapter 5, What is the effect of having this chapter follow the Elroy encounter and come before the next chapter?

  Posted by koreanasian2 on Sep 16, 2009 at 07:15 PM

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  In Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, how is Lt. Jimmy Cross established as a savior figure; does he sacrifice something?

  Posted by iceprincessx3 on Sep 13, 2009 at 09:14 PM

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  Look at the tension of the last sentences.

  Posted by pixiewar on Sep 13, 2009 at 08:02 PM

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  What did Jimmy Cross carry After the war, both physically and emotionally? How does his conversation with Tim O Brien manipulate you a a reader?

  Posted by koreanasian2 on Sep 12, 2009 at 02:41 PM

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  Why did Lieutenant Jimmy Cross feel guilty about Ted Lavender's death? Should he?

  Posted by koreanasian2 on Sep 9, 2009 at 03:27 PM

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  The things they carried..

  Posted by lisamp1993 on Aug 12, 2009 at 09:03 AM

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  what does the soldier in Ch.3 mean by the statement, "All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back." (p.35)?

  Posted by ycarrasco1693 on Aug 11, 2009 at 05:23 PM

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  What makes Kiley's "sweetheart of the song tra bong" believable?

  Posted by shlbyfth04 on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM

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  What kind of motion did the younger monk perform in The Things They Carried?

  Posted by go0fy on Mar 19, 2009 at 05:54 PM

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  What does Henry Dobbins use? What does he do with it, and why does he still keep it even after his girlfriend dumps him?

  Posted by kellen on Mar 3, 2009 at 10:57 PM

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  In "The Things They Carried", why does O'Brien relate his experience as a pig declotter?    

  Posted by chelsea215 on Feb 14, 2009 at 07:09 AM

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  How were the soldiers treated after returning from the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried?

  Posted by ladymay on Oct 30, 2008 at 07:45 PM

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  What is the point of the insistent repetition of the words "the things they carried"?

  Posted by twilightfan89 on Oct 21, 2008 at 01:18 PM

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  Does the order in which the physical objects and intangible objects that are carried have significance?

  Posted by jenny0131 on Oct 14, 2008 at 09:21 PM

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  Why was the girl dancing in Chapter 14 of "The Things They Carried"?

  Posted by dd3131 on Sep 22, 2008 at 05:53 AM