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The things they carried
The things they carried
By Robyn Hulleman and Tara Vredegoor
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Middelbare school
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The things they carried
By Robyn Hulleman and Tara Vredegoor
Slide 1 - Diapositive
Content
Introduction
Preperation assignment
Vietnam war
Characters
Context/author
Plot of the novel
Themes
Literary therms
Assignment class
Slide 2 - Diapositive
Introduction
Slide 3 - Diapositive
Homework asignment
What do you think the novel is about?
Slide 4 - Question ouverte
Slide 5 - Vidéo
Context and author
Tim O'Brien
Semi-autobiogtraphical stories
Experiences
Slide 6 - Diapositive
Vietnam war
Slide 7 - Carte mentale
The vietnam war briefly explained
Slide 8 - Diapositive
Literary period
Postmodern
Non-linear narrative
Metafictional components
Slide 9 - Diapositive
Characters
Slide 10 - Diapositive
Tim O'Brien
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
Kiowa
Slide 11 - Diapositive
Norman Bowker
Ted Lavender
Curt Lemon
Slide 12 - Diapositive
Plot
Characters
Deemed traumatic
Flasbacks -> live war trauma
Audience sympathise
Literary and figuratively
Slide 13 - Diapositive
Examples story's
"The things they carried"
- Jimmy
- Carry
- Lavender
"Field trip"'
- remember and honor
"The lives of the Dead"
- Close-up
-Stories about fallen comrades
Slide 14 - Diapositive
Themes
Slide 15 - Diapositive
Survivor's Guilt
(guilt or a sense of responsibility for surviving a traumatic event when others did not)
- Tim O'Brien killing an enemy; "the man I killed"
- Norman Bowker surviving while Kiowa died; "speaking of courage"
Slide 16 - Diapositive
Truth and storytelling
"How to Tell a True War Story,"
Story-truth vs happening-truth
- The subjective reality conveyed
Comrade Curt Lemon
- Power of storytelling -> emotional truths
Exaggerated
- "The Sweetheart of the song Tra Bong
- Convey deeper truths of war
Slide 17 - Diapositive
Love and longing
(emotional connections to home, family, and the people the soldiers care about)
-Letters from home
- Jimmy Cross and Martha
- Norman Bowker's longing for recognition
Slide 18 - Diapositive
Reflection on identity
(the characters confronting the impact of war on their sense of self)
- Norman Bowker's post-war struggle:
- Lieutenant Cross's leadership and responsibility:
-Kiowa's spiritual struggle
Slide 19 - Diapositive
Literary devices
Slide 20 - Diapositive
Protagonist and antagonist
Memory and storytelling
Traditional
Physically and emotionally
Greater background
Affects people
Common humanity
Slide 21 - Diapositive
Methaphore
(A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable)
- “Lieutenant Cross wished the rain would let up. Even for an hour, it would make things easier.
But then he shrugged. The rain was the war and you had to fight it.”
- “The things they carry”
- “That's what a story does. The bodies are animated. You make the dead talk.”
Slide 22 - Diapositive
Symbolism
"Turning an object or action in a literary work into something that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself."
The pebble
- Connection and distance
The letters
- Home and loneliness
Martha
-Feminine force and home
Slide 23 - Diapositive
Foreshadowing
(Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.)
- Ted Lavender's death
- Norman Bowker's post-war struggle
- Jimmy Cross' love towards Martha
Slide 24 - Diapositive
Imagery
"A lively description of objects and scene."
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Specificities
Hair, nails, skin
Slide 25 - Diapositive
Quiz
Slide 26 - Diapositive
How is Curt Lemon killed?
A
He is shot in the head
B
He is never killed
C
He steps on a mine
D
He is killed by a grenade
Slide 27 - Quiz
What is unusual about the novel's antagonist?
Slide 28 - Question ouverte
Who is Martha?
Slide 29 - Carte mentale
What is special about the title of the book?
A
The title is a metaphor
B
The president invented the title
C
The title is named after the passed Kiowa
D
Martha wrote a poem about the title for Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
Slide 30 - Quiz
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