Midterm+Exam+Review


 * EAST HARTFORD ADULT EDUCATION **  ** Contemporary Literature Midterm Review **
 * 1) Name facts about the Vietnam War based on the PowerPoint presentations given in class and posted on the wikispace.
 * 2) Provide a definition of metafiction according to //The Things They Carried//. Be sure to include the major points discussed in class.
 * 3) Why does O'Brien focus so much on tangibles and intangibles of what men carry? After all, he starts the book with a chapter full of lists of tangibles and intangibles that the soldiers carry. Provide on example of a tangible AND an intangible that one of the characters in the novel carries and explain its purpose in detail. Include a quote from the text to support your answer.
 * 4) Why is Elroy Berdahl O’Brien’s hero? What heroic qualities does he possess? Support your ideas with at least three different quotations from the text.
 * 5) Know the different ways to tell a true war story according to Tim O’Brien and how it relates to metafiction. Include page numbers to support your answer.