DATM connected to TTTC

Question 1

Both texts explore

Answer 1

Psychological impacts of trauma, memory and the weight of the past

Question 2

How do both works make you feel

Answer 2

poignant, pitiful

Question 3

Contexts / Settings

Answer 3

TTTC => vietnam war
DATM => post-dictatorship chile

Question 4

Demarcation point

Answer 4

Goes to river in canada OR goes to vietnam. The division of the two options he can do

Question 5

Survivor’s Guilt / Trauma
=> Removal of Innocence

CONCEPT OF TIME

Answer 5

TTTC => Speaking of Courage
- Norman bowker (12 rounds , PTSD)

DATM => grabs gun quickly, acts “irrational”
- Paulina

Question 6

Truth and Justice

Answer 6

Justice in DATM => paulina trying to pull out truth from roberto

Justice in TTTC => bowker trying to justify why he couldn’t save kiowa. imaginary dad trying to pull out truth from bowker
Personal justice in “the man i killed”

Question 7

Memory and Truth

Answer 7

DATM => how do we know that paulina isn’t lying or that roberto isn’t lying?

TTTC => Reliability of memory in sweetheart of the song tra bong.