The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien STUDY NOTES about "In The Field" - includes details about the plot, characters, themes, key quotes and links to other stories
Title: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien STUDY NOTES about "In The Field" - includes details about the plot, characters, themes, key quotes and links to other stories
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 630 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien STUDY NOTES about "In The Field" - includes details about the plot, characters, themes, key quotes and links to other stories
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 630 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
In The Field
Plot:
*The soldiers search for the body of Kiowa in the "shit field."
*Jimmy Cross blames himself, wonders where he went wrong and writes a letter in his head to Kiowa's father.
*A young soldier, presumably Tim though un-named, searches for the picture of his ex-girlfriend.
*Kiowa is found and proves very difficult to dig out on the field.
Characters:
Jimmy Cross: - not a good leader -> he just followed …showed first 75 words of 630 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 630 total…Jimmy plans to write.
The Man I Killed: - Links though the guilt that Tim felt in both stories as well as Jimmy.
Style: - Azar's black humour in both stories.
Speaking Of Courage: - Norman Bowker imagining telling the story of Kiowa's death to his father.
Notes: - How Norman Bowker felt like he "sank down into the sewage with" Kiowa.
Field Trip: - The field that Tim returns to is the same one.
