Norman Bowker | What is the Literary Term? | Character development | Postmodern Element | MISC |
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Hoop
What did Norman often do at the YMCA?
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Idiom
“Im no basket case- not even any bad dreams”
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Flat
What kind of character is Norman IN THIS CHAPTER?
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Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark humor, dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
What is the definetion of Dark humor?
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Norman
Who committed ?
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A & W
Where did Norman Shortly Work?
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Personification
“… it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories….”
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supporting Character
What kind of Character is Kiowa?
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a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Definition of Paradox?
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Three
How many "notes" are in this chapter?
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YMCA
Where did Norman Commit?
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simile
“… using the lake as a nucleus around which the story would orbit”
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Dynamic
What kind of character in Tim O'Brien?
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Dark humor
“One thing I hate is all those winter-vet”
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Jump rope
What did he use to commit?
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What is
Who did Norman live with?
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personification
"-and it carried it all a few hundred miles south"
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No
Did Norman's Death affect Kiowa majorly?
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Paradox
“Anyhow I am basically A- Okay. Home free!..... A guy who feels like he got zapped over in that shithole. “
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Yes
Did Tim try to deny and avoid the fact that he died?
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Tim
Who did Norman write his letters to?
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alliteration
"He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for Valor"
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Tim had already had is opinion on the war, but he had come to accept it and all its flaws, but after this is took him back to his old mentality.
How did Norman's death play a role into Tim's post war mentality?
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a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.
Postmodern element definition?
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The emotional core came directly form Bowman letter
Why did he title the previous chapter, "Speaking of courage"
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