Packet 11: Tossup 10

In the last paragraph of one book, this character imagines skating “under the yellow floodlights [...] across the surface of my own (15[1])history.” This character rents a cabin at the Tip Top Lodge from Elroy Berdahl while contemplating (15[1])fleeing to Canada. (15[2])A man’s killing of a baby water buffalo is used by this character to describe “How to Tell a True War Story.” (*) Kiowa attempts to stop this character from obsessing over a disfigured corpse in the chapter “The Man I Killed.” Letters from a girl named Martha are collected by this character’s commander Jimmy Cross. For 10 points, name this narrator and (-5[1])author of the short story collection The Things They Carried. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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