Unpacking Secrets: How Classic Storytelling Reveals Hidden Truths in Suburban Memoirs
Some are awakened by humility, realizing they’d never given the soldier’s experience its due in their minds.
And then comes Chapter 18, “Good Form,” in which O’Brien admits he’s been making things up. That’s when I see heat from being duped warm their faces. That’s when, in 2015, one student threw his copy on the ground.
“I feel betrayed. I’ll never read a high school book again.”
Last spring, months after we’d finished the unit, my students were still buzzing about O’Brien. While adapting short stories into films, one group argued about shooting scenes in vignettes: “It’ll still make sense. Just like in The Things They Carried!”
