(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Why emphasize the setting in telling the Mitchell Sanders story, whereas the focus was on plot/character with Rat’s letter writing?
Mitchell says, “Hear that quiet, man? ...That quiet--just listen. There’s your moral” (77) What’s the moral?
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When Curt Lemon is killed, O’Brien writes: “the last thing Curt Lemon believed, which for him must’ve been the final truth” (84).
→ What is this “last thing” he believed?
Why does O’Brien intentionally have Sanders, the storyteller, break the story (“He wanted me to tell the truth, to believe by the raw force of feeling. He seemed sad, in a way” [74]).
Mitchell Sanders describes: “it’s all fire. They make those mountains burn. Around dawn things finally get quiet. Like you never even heard quiet before. One of those real thick, real misty days--just clouds and fog...Everything’s all sucked up in
Look at the adjectives O’Brien uses to describe; start with the sentence that begins “At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death” (81). → Why use this diction? How does it illuminate meaning?
Why does O’Brien remember most that Dave Jensen sings “Lemon Tree” (83) instead of cleaning up his friend’s remains? What might that demonstrate/symbolize?
What does Rat & his violence against the baby water buffalo symbolize and/or demonstrate?
Why does O’Brien use Rat to tell the story about the letter, or Mitchell to tell the story about the silence, instead of telling it himself?
If truth is so “ugly” (81), why is O’Brien so seemingly obsessed with it?
What does it mean that a country, a war, “talks” (74)?
O’Brien talks about how it’s usually an older woman who tells him: “put it all behind [him]. Find new stories to tell” (84). → What does this woman not understand? How is she similar to “the cooze”?
Regarding the "In a true war story" quote: therein lies the contradiction: What happens is irrelevant to the “truth” of a story, but you can’t understand that “truth” unless you examine what happens”. → EXPLAIN.
Why does O’Brien continue to repeat the word “cooze”?
“In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a t
