Theme
“Courage becomes a concept without meaning”
(McCarthy).
On back of analysis card, write your Tidbit:
Getting through the experience of war is the
important thing to the soldiers. The fear they have
inside eats at them, yet they have the strength and
courage to march on and put themselves in bad
situations just to carry out their
orders.
Theme
“In The Things They Carried, the members of Alpha
Company depict what soldiers in Vietnam found
themselves compelled to do in order to survive the
war’s physical and psychological carnage, and yet
avoid dishonor” (Kaplan).
On back of analysis card, write your Tidbit:
Because of the soldiers willpower to live it gave
them courage to overcome the burdens of war.
Theme
The theme of control is examined throughout
O’Brien’s novel, Going After Cacciato. “…even
more central to the novel, however, is the theme of
control, a theme that subsumes and defines courage
itself” (Henningfield).
On back of analysis card, write your Tidbit:
Having self-control during battle is a major emotion
that runs through the characters minds in the book.