The Things They Carried help with homework: Assignment #8 (“Ghost Soldiers” pp. 180‐207)

Assignment #8 (“Ghost Soldiers” pp. 180‐207)
1. Discuss how O’Brien feels about his transfer to battalion supply duty.
2. Talk about how “Morty Phillips used up his luck.”
3. Read aloud and discuss the paragraph that begins, “Something had gone wrong.”
4. Talk about O’Brien’s revenge and how it makes him feel.
5. Talk about the reversal at the end of the chapter.