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Nature of Story
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Undergraduate 4
12/13/2011

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Rat Kiley
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Told the story of the "Sweetheart of Song Trahbong." Likes to stretch the truth in order to make stories more interesting.

TTTC- Tim O'Brien

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Kaowa
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Died in the shit field. Good friend of Tim O' Brien.

TTTC

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Curt Lemon
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Blown up playing catch with Rat Kiley.

TTTC

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Linda

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Young girl who dies of a brain tumor. Tim O'Brien keeps her alive in his head metaphorically.

TTTC

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Nick Veenhof
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Took handkerchief off Linda's head revealing her bald head. Similiar to Azar because they are both mean.

TTTC

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Norman Bowker
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Committed suicide. No one would talk to him. Best friend died in the lake.

TTTC

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Mark Fossie
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Brought his girlfriend, Mary Anne Bell, to Vietnam who was the sweetheart of song trahbong.

TTTC

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Henry Dobbins
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Big dumb and strong like america. He was nice to the monks.

TTTC

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Jimmy Cross
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He loved Martha and tried to tie her up. He is the symbol of Jesus Christ.

TTTC

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Ted Lavender
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Heavy Drug User, troops smoke his weed after he is dead.

TTTC

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Quan
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Protagonist of the story, very divided about the war. He recruits more soldiers for the war.

Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong

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Vieng
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Shes the woman who retrieves bodies. Quan couldn't make love to her because she was fully commited to the war.

Novel Without A Name -Duong Thu Huong

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Mr. and Mrs. Buu (Nhan)
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Free thinkers of the village. Represent the anti-communist elements of the novel.

Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong

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Quang
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Quang's younger brother. Father convinces him to enlist even though he had a bright future.

Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong

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Dao Tien
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In charge of where Bien was being kept. Filling Quang with a lot of communist idealogy.

Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong

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Bien
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Big man, strong man. Pretended to be crazy to get out of the war. Gets into Huc's Unit that makes caskets. Dies from Tetanus infection.

Novel Without A Name - Duong Thu Huong

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Earthen Wear Basin
Definition

Quang was born in it. They ate monkey soup from it and it reminded him of Quang. Represents a life-giving force.

Novel without a name - Duong Thu Huong

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Ly 
Definition

Communist official in Quans Village. Recruited young boys to go to war.

Novel without a name - Duong Thu Huong

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Hoa
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Young girl who loves Quan, said she would be faithful but 10 years later she is pregnant. She disgraces her family and is abandoned by them.

Novel without a name - duong thu huong

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Giau
Definition

She is a waitress in a Chinese Restaurant. She ends up dating Mr. Cohen.

"Snow" GSSM- Robert Olen Butler

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Mr. Cohen
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Comes in to get dinner for two with his son for Jewish Christmas. Tells Giau later that he was single and they end up dating.

"Snow" GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Grandfather Clock
Definition

Correspondence with Mr.Cohen because he sounds like a clock. When he asks her out she is riding upon time.

"Snow" GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Noi
Definition

Falls in love with the bureaucrat. She thought he was the heart of America. Has sex with the GIs in return for apples.

"fairytale" GSSM - Robert Olen Butler

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Fontenot
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Heart and soul of America. Lower middle-class hard worker.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Gabrielle Tran
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Very observant, caught up in the feel good stuff on TV. Assimilated very well to American culture.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Vinh Tran
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Caught up in the ways of America. Business man, has his own cocktail food business. Very assimilated.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Apples
Definition

Sexual Image. She gets apples from the GI's that she sleeps with.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Liz Taylor and Dick Burton
Definition

They are the american couple. Their breakup is like Vinh+Gabrielle Tran's.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Frank Davies
Definition

Frank fights with Vinh.

"Fairytale"GSSM-Robert Olen Butler

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Mr. Chinh
Definition

Old man who has dementia. Mai's grandfather, and he has forgotten all about her, but seems to remember the trips he took in his Hotchkiss, from Saigon to Hanoi.

The Trip Back-GSSM Robert Olen Butler

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Dao
Definition

Name means harmony. He is in a quest for harmony.

GSSM Robert Olen Butler

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Ho Chi Minh
Definition

Ghost that comes to Dao. He represents conflict.

GSSM Robert Olen Butler

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Buom
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She is the butterfly. Most beautiful girl in all of town. Always being seeked by other men, but her husband pushes them back until they get to America where he loses all his power.

GSSM Robert Olen Butler

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Santiago
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Old man, there is a nobility in his struggle. He doesn't catch a fish for 84 days and then hits the jackpot, just like his hero Joe DiMaggio.

 

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Manolin
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Young boy who used to fish with Santiago. Like the legend of the Fischer King he is going to take over as King.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Marlin
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Big Fish that he catches but later ate by the sharks.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Joe DiMaggio
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Baseball player for NYY. Breaks up his bad streak of hitting. Santiago's hero.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Virgin of Cobre
Definition

Guardian Saint of Cuba. There is a picture of her posted on Santiago's wall. Holy symbol in the story.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Galanoes
Definition

Shovel-Nose Shark. They are the bottom feeders.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Dentuso
Definition

Mako Shark. They are the noble sharks and they often hunt alone.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Lions on the Beach
Definition

Santiago's Dream. Noble strong creatures like him and the Mako sharks.

Old Man - Ernest Hemingway

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Warbler
Definition

Small bird who lands on his boat. Goes toward land and gets eaten by hawks. That foreshadows the shark eating the marlin.

Old Man

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Aristotelian Tragedy
Definition

He has reached and gone too far. Man trying to get more than he could possibly bargain for.

Old Man

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