Round 11: Tossup 10

In the last paragraph of one book, this character imagines skating “under the yellow floodlights [...] across the surface of my own history.” This character rents a cabin at the Tip Top Lodge from Elroy Berdahl while contemplating fleeing to Canada. A man’s (-5[1])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 (-5[1])“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 author (-5[1])of the short story collection The Things They Carried. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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