The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Contrary to other assignments, I am encouraging you to look on the Internet for sources that give study questions, analysis, and interpretations. Here are some sites, but a simple search will give you an unlimited list. You will find just how important this book is! You will also find that different people get different things from this book. That is what makes it so great! Is this cheating?– No, since you will spend as much time reading about the interpretation as you will spend reading the text.
What does this book mean to you? How do you feel as you read this book? I want you to engage in some serious reflection as you try to figure out just what Tim O’Brien is saying. You cannot be wrong!
Keep your own journal and write an entry after each chapter (1/2-1 page long). Use the questions you see on these sites if you want, use the interpretations you read if you want, or just react with whatever comes to your mind.
http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/thingstheycarried_bgc.html
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/things_they_carried.asp
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~tjp4773/thingsquestions.html
http://icarus.ubetc.buffalo.edu/willbern/bestsellers/Things/things.html
http://icarus.ubetc.buffalo.edu/willbern/bestsellers/Things/thingstud.html
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-7679-0289-0&view=rg
http://academics.vmi.edu/english/o%27brien.html
http://www.nashville-schools.davidson.k12.tn.us/CyberGuides/ThingsTheyCarried/teachertemplate.html
http://www.meanses.com/anjgel.asp
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/language_arts/carrasco/unitdescrip.html
http://veteransearch.com/things_they_carried.htm
http://hyper.vcsun.org/HyperNews/smaselli/get/thingstheycarried.html
http://bookrags.com/notes/tttc/
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/timobrientalk.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/thingscarried/
http://www.wit.edu/orientation/obrien2.htm
http://www.nd.edu/~frswrite/mcpartlin98/Posek.shtml