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3.4 Assignment: The Things They Carried - Module 3 Chapter Questions INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to the following questions using complete sentences . Remember to answer all parts of the question and utilize correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar . Chapter 11: “Church” 1. What does Dobbins suggest to Kiowa that he might be interested in doing after the War? That he would consider joining the monks in the temple. 2. Dobbins expresses to the Kiowa that he never enjoyed going to church. If he does not like going to church, then what is it about the idea of a church and becoming a preacher that truly interests Dobbins? The act of helping people, of showing kindness and giving them hope and contributing to a community. 3. Can you find the irony in your answer to number 2 and if so, what is it? That he is saying this while in the midst of the Vietnam War, in which many gruesome and cruel things happened at the hands of American soldiers. Chapter 12: “The Man I Killed” 1. In the beginning of this chapter, what inference can you make about who shot the man? That it was an atrocious death, and the killer was shooting brutally. 2. How does Azar react to the killing of the man? Azar compares the dead man to several things, what does he compare the man to? What does this reveal about how Azar needs to deal with seeing death? Azar compared the man to oatmeal and rice crispies, trying to make light of it. This can show that Azar’s way of coping would be to make jokes instead of processing the severity of the situation. 3. Explain how Kiowa tries to make Tim O’Brien feel better about what he had just done. Does it work? Kiowa tries to rationalize and justify it by telling O’Brien that the boy was carrying a weapon and that if he hadn’t killed him, someone else would. It does not work, as O’Brien spirals into thinking about the life the boy could have had, and who he was before the war. Kiowa urges O’Brian to talk about it but he does not, instead internalizing his actions and the details about the boys corpse. 4. Why does Tim O’Brien continue to repeat the The repetition can show how greatly it affected him, that by repeating it over and over he’s

same details about the body to the reader? What does the continuous repetition of personal details about the dead man and his body reveal to you about how Tim is feeling? Explain your answer. deepening the realization of his actions. By repeating the physical details about the corpse hes showing to the reader how it can be burned into one’s mind. The details he gives might be showing how he is projecting his own self or his own inner self onto the life of the boy. Showing that these details were something he subconsciously wanted and that like the man, those dreams became mangled and maimed because of this war. He focuses on the star shaped eye hole. Fixating on this could show how what he is seeing will become a void in him, that who he was before is know just a chasm where something else was. That he might never see the same. It can also be a way of showing the reader not to believe everything about the story, and that there isn’t always something behind what you’re seeing. Chapter 13: “Ambush” 1. Why do you think Tim O’Brien would not tell his daughter the truth about having killed a man in Vietnam? To protect her from the truth of the war, the role he played in it, and the atrocities that were witnessed within Vietnam. She was still innocent to the gruesome nature of the world, and so he wanted to protect her from the realities of the war. 2. What do Tim O’Brien, Norman Bowker, and Jimmy Cross all have in common when it comes to dealing with death in Vietnam? That they internalized it and never stopped feeling guilty. Chapter 14: “Style” 1. Write a brief summary about this chapter. After coming to a village in ruins, they see a girl dancing outside her house on her tiptoes and covering her ears. Her dead family is inside the house but she does not seem upset just keeps dancing around. Azar says the dance is a ritual and mocks her, Dobbins says she maybe just like to dance. Azar mocks the girl’s dancing and joins in, Dobbins picks him up and threatens to drop him in the well if Azar doesn’t dance correctly, meaning not to mock the girl and dance normally. 2. Why do you think this Vietnamese girl is dancing when her entire family was just killed, probably right in front of her? Do you think she is dancing because she is happy? It might be a coping mechanism. Witnessing your entire family killed, as well as your village can be extremely traumatizing. She could be dancing as a way to avoid facing the reality of her family's death. It could also be a way of

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