Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Things They Carried pp. 59-81 (Enemies, Friends, How to Tell a True War Story)

Choose to respond to one. Write at least four complete sentences. Respond to at least one classmate's post. Follow the blogging rules! Proofread for errors before submitting!

  1. Describe how Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk become friends and the agreement that they make.
  2. Describe what happens to Curt Lemon.
  3. Explain the incident with the water buffalo and why you think Rat Kiley did it.

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  1. they become friends because they got in a fight. Jensen broke Strunks nose so Jensen broke his to make it even. they became friends and made a deal. the deal was that if one of them is really badly injured the other would end the pain and misery. Stunk loses his leg and is taken to a hospital in a helicopter but dies on the way there.

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    1. It was a good answer to the question.

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    2. They become friends because they got in a fight. Jensen broke Strunks nose, so Jensen broke his to make it even. They became friends and made a deal that if one of them gets hurt the other would put them out of their misery. Stunk loses his leg and is taken to a hospital in a helicopter, but dies on the way there.

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    3. Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk did not get along with each other very well at first.
      They got into a fistfight in which Dave Jensen broke Lee Strunk's nose.
      After Lee Strunk had returned back and entered the platoon again, Dave Jensen was terribly afraid of lee Strunk taking revenge.
      It ended up Dave Jensen braking his own nose.
      After that they got along better, made an agreement.
      The agreement dealt with the situation of one of them getting wounded very bad. In this case the other one has to kill him.
      But when Lee Strunk lost his leg, he told Dave Jensen not to kill him.
      Although Dave Jensen did not kill him, he died very soon.
      The rest of the platoon was told he died somewhere over Chu Lai.

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  2. Curt Lemon was blown apart by something that they don't know what it was. Him and Kiley were playing hot potato with a smoke grenade. Curt walked out from under the shaded tree that they were playing under and then he just blew up. Pieces of him were in the trees and on the ground. They had to peel him off the tree. Kiley wrote to Curt's sister and when he waited two months for her to write back, when she didn't he called her a dumb cooze.

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    1. This is a very good description of what happened to Curt Lemon.

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  3. In enemies lee Strunk and Dave Jenson did not like each other. They got in a fight and Dave Jensen Beat the crap out of Lee Strunk and broke his nose. Then Dave was scared Lee was going to get him back so Dave broke his own nose. So Lee it was fair and they became friends again.

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  4. The Incident with the water buffalo was very brutal. Rat Kiley shot the buffalo a lot of times he didn’t kill it the first time he wanted to make it suffer. The reason he did it was because he was so upset that he lost his best friend Curt Lemon. He wanted to make someone else suffer the same way he is. Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon were good friends because they had a lot in common and joked around a lot and played catch with smoke bombs until Curt Lemon died by a underground mine and made Rat Kiley very upset so he made the baby water buffalo suffer.

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    1. Great job! this give a lot of good info about what happened. It seems that you really understand the story. :)

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  5. The reason why they became friends is because, they get in a fight and Jenson broke Strunks nose and broke his own nose to get even with
    strunk. After that they became good friends covered each others backs in ambush even shared fox holes. But they did have a deal even signed it on paper and had witnesses, The deal was if one got shot the other had to end it. After the deal strunk steps on a booby trap, He losses his leg but jenson dose not want to kill him But a little while later they heard that Strunk died, Jenson was so relived.

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  6. Jensen and Strunk fight each other and Jensen breaks Strunk nose. Later Jensen breaks his own nose with a pistol and then they make a deal. The deal was if one gets hurt badly the other would kill him so he would not be in misery. Then Stunk breaks his leg and dies in the helicopter on the way to the hospital.

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  7. The reason why Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk became friends is because they got into a fight. Jensen broke Strunks nose. Jensen his broke his own nose so they would become even and he would not have to worry about Strunk getting him back. They become friends and make a pact that if one gets hurt really bad that the other one gets to kill him. Curt Lemon dies because him and his buddy was playing yellow woman and picked up a real grande and blew him into pieces.

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    1. very good! i wish i could of described this like you with fewer words!

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    2. Good, but you could've spell-checked before you publish. Check the third sentence.

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  8. Dave Jensen started to fight about a missing knife that lee Strunk stole. So Dave Jensen broke lee Strunks nose and was still beating him up. save Jensen started to get jumpy and broke his nose to get even. when he got back Dave Jensen apologized to lee and that's how they became friends.

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    1. Good, but spell check. You put "save jensen" in third sentence.

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  9. lee Strunk and Dave Jenson did not like each other, they got in a fight. They was friends at the end. They end up becoming friends again cause Dave broke his nose so it would be fair.Stunk loses his leg and is taken to a hospital.what happen to curt lemon was that he dies because him and his friend was playing yellow woman and picked up a real grande and blew him into pieces.

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    1. This great. Best work i have ever seen.
      #awesome

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  10. Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley were playing hot potato with a smoke grenade. Then Curt stepped on a Booby-Trap(land mine). The rest of the team had to get Bits and pieces of him out of a tree. Rat Kiley mailed a letter to Curt's sister but she never mailed him back so Rat called her a dumb cooze.

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  11. Dave Jensen and Lee Struck became friends by getting even with each other, Dave Jensen got in a fight with Lee Struck and broke his nose, over a missing jackknife Dave was scared that lee would want to get revenge on him so he broke his nose to call it even Dave Jensen went crazy, then they made a deal with each other if one of them get injured to put the other one down, Lee Struck got injured and he told Dave Jensen not to kill him and Lee Struck made him swear not to kill him so Dave Jensen swore , then soon after Lee Struck died because he lost to much blood.

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  12. the reason lee strunk and dave jensen became friends is because they got into a fight the reason for the fight is that lee stole dave's jack knife and dave got mad and confronted him about it and they faught dave broke lee's nose and afterwards dave drove himself crazy thinking that lee is plotting revenge and he broke his own nose with a pistol handle to get even after that they became friends and made a promise to each other that if anything bad happened to one of them they would kill the injured one day lee stepped on a mine and it blew off his leg and lee told him not to kill him so he didnt he died from loosing too much blood.

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    1. You need to proofread it. Capitalize and punctuation were it is needed.

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  13. It all started when Lee Strunk stole Dave Jensen's jackknife. Dave fought Lee and kept repeatedly punching Lee in the face until he heard a cracking sound which was the sound of Lee's nose breaking. So Lee goes to the hospital and when he returns two days later, Jensen thinks Lee is hell-bent set on revenge. Dave turns into some sort of crazy paranoid person who can't take the suspense of it all anymore, so he breaks his own nose and goes over to Lee and shows him what he did and asks if everything is square and Lee says sure. They begin to trust each other and finally become best good friends.

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    1. very good you didn't spell Dave Jensen name wrong like me.

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  14. 1. They had a fistfight about a missing jackknife. Dave Jensen couldn’t relax because he broke Lee's nose, so Dave broke his own nose to make it even. The agreement is if one gets wounded badly then the other will end it. Dave and Lee made up and became friends and then Lee loses his leg and Dave wasn't going to kill Lee, so Lee was getting taken to the hospital and died on the way.

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