Further Questions

Questions to Incite Reflection

 

1). Who is truly a coward?

 

2). How many times have we made a decision based on our "fear of blushing"? Why?

 

3). What are "the things" we carry?

4). Why does society tend to judge people as cowards or heroes? What is their criteria to do so? 

5). Could one really regard cowardice as the fear of dying at war?

6). Can love truly be considered everlasting and unconditional? 

7). What was the meaning of love for the soldiers that were at war? Was it a form of survival? Or was it their hope for the better? 

8). What is love? Truthful? Everlasting? Timeless? Hopeful? Unconditional? 

9). Were Tim O'Brien's actions a sense of  cowardice? Why or why not?

 

10). Is war ever justifiable? When and why?

11). What would you have done in Tim O'Brien's shoes? Would you have fled to Canada? Or would you have stayed? 

12). What does it mean to be brave?