Geoffrey Chauncer is known as the father of literature and the prime shaper of English. Chauncer was also praised by fellow poets and critics. Chauncer was the first to use the English Language. Even before William Shakespeare. All his praise seemed to come as a surprise due to his orgins of being from Middle English. Chauncer's work was often divided into 3 stages from French influence to Italian tendencies and finally English realism. His achievements consisted of the rejection of conventions, rhetoric, types, and symbols.
1) On page 86 Kien talks about seeing one of his old war comrades, do you think that this was a effect of post traumatic stress syndrome? 2) Why do you think Kien was suddenly having flashbacks of the Screaming Jungle? 3) What do you think writing did for Kien, far as helping with the after effects of the war? 4) Why do you think Kien was sadly wandering the streets on page 86? 5) What do you think Kien was talking about when he said writing lead him into a labyrinth? 6) Why do you think Kien said that the dead sometimes had more meaning than the living? 7) What does the quote "dying and surviving were separated by a thin line" mean to you? 8) On pages 95-96 Quang tells Kien to shoot him and put him out of his misery, but Kien decides not to do it. Why do you think Kien choose not to shoot and what would you do if you were placed in the same predicament? 9) On page 93 Kien expresses his remorse for not coming in time to save the injured solider in the crater, ...
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