Student Name: Annalise Steinmann 

Title of Work : The Things They Carried 

Extract Link: ​The Things They Carried - Extract 
 
  Character   Theme   Plot   Global Issue  
Choose a character or pair  Choose a theme in work and  Choose an aspect of the plot  Identify and describe a global 
of characters and what  explain its significance to the  (point of view, conflict,  issue that the author 
purpose they serve in the  work as a whole. Then,  resolution, etc) and explain  addresses in the work. Then, 
work. Then, describe how  describe how the author  how the author crafts the  list how the author develops 
the author achieves this  conveys this theme.    work as a whole.    the global issue.   
purpose.   

5-7 sentence  O’Brien - The purpose  A theme within this book  Conflict - O’Brien convey  A global issue that O’Brien 
explanation of  O’Brien serves in this  includes the large one of  conflict in a multitude of  addresses in this novel is the 
ideas in the work.   passage is that of the  mortality and death, as  ways, as he portrays certain  issue of Story Truth vs. 
example, an example of an  O’Brien frequently touches  internal and external  Happening Truth, and O’Brien 
extremely emotionally  on how traumatic or  conflicts, like individual vs.  states that Story truth can be 
damaged person, whose  surprisingly non-traumatic  individual, individual vs. self,  just as factual as happening 
ability to correctly act upon  certain deaths are  and individual vs.  truth in the emotions they 
his values and belief  throughout the book.   community.  convey.  
systems has been 
tarnished by his being in 
war. 
Author technique  ● Symbolism -  ● Symbol - the death of  ● Symbol - the  ● Examples: “The Man I 
or strategies  symbols of the  the water buffalo in  Canadian border in  Killed,” “The 
(bullet points)  isolation   “How to Tell a True  “On the Rainy River”   Sweetheart of the 
  ● Motif - shame tied  War Story”  ● Switches from first to  Song Trabong,” “How 
You may wish to  to courage  ● Curt Lemon’s Death  third person points of  to Tell a True War 
consider: motifs,  ● Syntax - uses long,  ● The death of O’Brien’s  view between  Story” 
symbols,  winding sentences  childhood friend  vignettes, even  ● Imagery - vivid images 
character foils,  at times, and  Linda  sometimes switches  of overly dramatized 
narrative  telegraphic or  ● Motif - tangible vs.  to second within a  or under dramatized 
technique, plot  interrupted  intangible weight   vignette  deaths.  
structure.    sentences at others