Where Have You Gone Charming Billy by Tim O' Brien 1. Quickwrite: Have you or has someone you know ever been in a frightening situation (accident, flood, bad fight) What did you do to make yourself feel better Explain.
Read p. 196 very carefully to answer the following questions. 2. Make the Connection: The Vietnam war divided _______________ with particular ______________. Some of those who have served in Vietnam have asked _________________. Although this war had profound effect on our _____________, few people have ______________ about Vietnam. _________________, who served in Vietnam is an exception. In the story that follows, he _______________ on one __________________ feelings during his _____________ into _________________. 3. Elements of Literature: What the main character ____________ in the course of a story often leads us to the story's ____________. One way of getting at the _____________ of ______________is to look at how the main character ________________ in the course of the story, or at what he or she has ________________ by the story's _______________. Often what this character has _____________ about ____________is the _________________the writer wants to _________________ to us. Read page 204 to answer the following questions. 4. Meet the Writer Tim O'Brien: It was the ________________ that made Tim O'Brien a writer. He was __________ immediately after graduating from college in ____________. He then spent __________ years as an infantryman (a soldier who fights on foot). When he returned from Vietnam. O'Brien used his imagination to ____________________. Many of his stories are told from the ________________ of a soldier named _____________________. These stories grew into a novel called __________________, which won the ____________________ in 1979. O'Brien also published _______________________ in 1990, which refers to the _____________ and _______________ burdens carried by the American soldiers in Vietnam. In 1994 he published _____________________.

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