Key concepts/themes with quotes (TTTC)

Question 1

Violence

Portrayal of violence and its impact on individual

Answer 1

• Pg 28 - Martha: “The things men do.”
• Pg 29 - Jimmy Cross: “Don’t mention anything about.”
• Pg 33 - “It was a ritual for them.”
• Pg 34 - “Replaying itself over and over.”
• Pg 34 - “Too heavy on the tranquilizers.”
• Pg 63 - “Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fistfight…about something stupid.”
• Pg 82 - Tim: “War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
• Pg 239 - Tim: “I was scared.”

Question 2

Guilt

Survival’s guilt and guilt

Answer 2

• Pg 171 - Tim: “I was afraid to speak…afraid to remember.”
• Pg 252 - Mitchell Sanders: “Death sucks.”

Question 3

Love

Illustration of love

Answer 3

• Pg 28 - Jimmy Cross: “When he told her he still loved her, she kept walking and didn’t answer.”
• Pg 240 - Tim: “I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt inside her bones.”