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The description of the game of checkers is meant to be an opposite metaphor for the war in Vietnam. Explain what the author means by the use of this literary device.
Why is the third story called "Spin?"
Tell how you feel as you read the endings of the "happy" stories in "Spin."
The narrator remembers, "A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter's blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away." Explain how this is a metaphor for the Viet Cong, whom the soldiers were fighting.
Tell whether you agree or disagree with the narrator's point of view on the purpose of stories in "Spin."
Explain the metaphor about courage in "On the Rainy River." Do you agree with the narrator's ideas? Why or why not?
Summarize the narrator's point of view about making war. Do you agree or disagree?
The narrator said, "There should be a law... If you support the war... you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and ... help spill the blood." Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
After reading "On the Rainy River" tell what you think you would have done, had you been in the same situation as the narrator.
Explain why the narrator described Elroy Berdahl like God.
Explain the irony of Jensen breaking his own nose.
What would you have done if you had been Jensen when you saw that Strunk had been badly wounded?
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