The Things They Carried 1. How do the members of O’Brien’s platoon treat the body of the old man? Describe O’Brien’s reaction as well.

2.Why does Linda die? Describe nine year-old Timmy’s reaction.

3.Why does O’Brien end his novel on the Vietnam War with a story about a nine-year old girl? What do you make of Linda? What does she represent?

4.According to O’Brien in The Lives of the Dead, what is the magic of stories/ power of writing? Recall 2 “miracles” writing can achieve. (Hint: What can writing do for others? What can it do for the writer him/herself?)

5.What did you think of The Things They Carried? Did you like it? Why or why not?

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How can i use "as william walking with his wife was seen" as a short sentense

Men sample of a metaphor? o a she was as busy as a bee. o b, his room was like a prison. o c. she has a heart of stone, d. she is an uncaring person.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)