Sunday, August 28, 2016

Friday, August 26, 2016

The Things They Carried

The first work of literature we are reading in Part 3 is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.

Below is the table of contents of the book, together with a reading schedule:

    5 September 2016:
  • Things they carried
  • Love
  • Spin
  • On the Rainy River
  • Enemies
  • Friends

  • 12 September 2016:
  • How to tell a true war story
  • Dentist
  • Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
  • Stockings
  • Church
  • The Man I killed
  • Ambush
  • Style

  • 19 September 2016:
  • Speaking of courage
  • Notes
  • In the field
  • Good form

  • 26 September 2016:
  • Field trip
  • Ghost soldiers
  • Night life
  • Lives of the dead.