Character Map for The Things They Carried
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
O’Brien calls his novel a work of fiction, but it is based on the experiences of thousands of men, called to fight for their country in the muck and jungle of a part of the world far removed from their own.
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The Things They Carried Character Tim O'Brien
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- KIOWA
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- 19 or 20 years old; Native American; devout Baptist; carries an illustrated New Testament and his grandfather’s hunting hatchet; keeps moccasins for silence
- “And Kiowa had been a splendid human being, the very best, intelligent and gentle and quiet-spoken.Very brave, too. And decent.”
- Practices his heritage; practices his faith; likes to be in churches; tries to comfort O’Brien after he kills a man; a good person; moral; upstanding
- LIEUTENANT JIMMY CROSS
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- TIM O'BRIEN
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- RAT KILEY
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- NORMAN BOWKER
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- TED LAVENDER
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