For each character, write a brief description of the character’s role in the stories. Include some of the following: what did he carry? how did he/she die? what is his/her relationship to the other characters?
• Rat Kiley
• Norman Bowker
• Mitchell Sanders
• Tim O’Brien
• Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
• Henry Dobbins
• Kiowa
• Ted Lavender
• Curt Lemon
• Lee Strunk
• Dave Jensen
• Lee Strunk
• Linda
• Mary Anne Bell
Characteristics of a true war story:
For each story, write a brief summary of the plot. Then, write one major theme (main idea/moral to the story)
• “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
• “The Man I Killed”
• “Speaking of Courage”
• “Notes”
• “In the Field”
• “Field Trip”
• “The Ghost Soldiers”
• “Night Life”
• “The Lives of the Dead”
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