For Wednesday, November 3

Read:   "How to Tell a True War Story" from Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried.  This chapter starts on page 64.



1)  Design a chart in which you discuss the paradoxical nature of war.  See pages 76-78  Find a couple of pictures on the internet that demonstrate these paradoxes.  Print them out.
2)  Find three (3) literary strategies that O'Brien incorporates into his writing and defend their effectiveness in telling his story.  (List)

If you are interested in looking at the rationale for reading this novel in our class, you can go to the following link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHHEK4vu5NTwCOtrTyDJA0siM_I1aXsCUqSvsEbWuAc/pub