Characters Plot Random/Miscellaneous Quotes
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What is Elroy
This character is the manager of the Tip Top Lounge and gives Tim valuable advice
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What is stay and fight
Tim's ultimate decision to go or not
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What is the meatpacking industry
The industry that Tim works in
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Who is Tim
"This is one story I've never told before. Not to anyone. Not to my parents, not to my brother or sister, not even to my wife. To go into it, I've always thought, would only cause embarrassment for all of us, a sudden need to be elsewhere, which is the na
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What is Tim
This character was torn between entering the war or fleeing to Canada to avoid wartime duties
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What is fishing on the river
The activity which Elroy and Tim do often, and when he ultimately makes up his mind
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What is shower, write a note to his parents, and drive away
This is what Tom did after leaving the factory when he decided to flee
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What is the Vietnam War
What is Tim talking about when he says, "I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of
philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty"
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What is Elroy
This character was influential in Tim's decision to stay and fight instead of fleeing to Canada
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What is Elroy paying Tim for his work at the lodge, and in fact being in debt to him, Tim refuses to accept the money
This happened when Elroy and Tim sat down to figure out the payment situation
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What is complete emptiness, stillness, no boats on the water, quietness
The scene at the Tip Top Lounge (nature, environment)
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What is his decision and how torn he was
What is Tim describing when he says, "I felt paralyzed. All around me the options seemed to be
narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight. There was no happy way out
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What is Jimmy Cross, Jane Fonda, veterans, Gary Cooper, Abe Lincoln, LBJ Etc.
When at the river with Elroy, Tim hallucinates and sees many different people across the river. Name 3 of them
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What is hallicuniate and see his loved ones/starts crying
This happens when Tim is on the boat with Elroy and thinking about his decision
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What is only people who advocate for the war should sacrifice their own blood instead of a random draft
This is what Tim thinks about the war (in terms of the draft)
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What is he was acting much like the other young men at the time, they were trying to flee before being shipped away
"After all, it was 1968, and guys were burning draft cards, and Canada was just a boat ride away". Why does it mention this in the text? Was he acting abnormal or were there others escaping as well?
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What is LBJ's daughter or Westmoreland's family, nephews, nieces and grandson
These family members of LBJ's and Westmoreland's are sarcastically suggested by Tim to be drafted into the war instead of him
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What is he fears exile and imagines people thinking he was a coward for leaving the country
The reason Tim is afraid to leave the country
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What is a full ride to Harvard, president of the student body, Phi Beta Kappa
Tim's future plans if he was not drafted into the war
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What is two hundred dollars
"I washed up the breakfast dishes, left his ______________ on the kitchen counter, got into the car and drove south toward home". What did he leave on the table?






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