Lights and The Things They Carried

1. "The driver honking back thanks, or flinching embarrassed behind the steering wheel, or gunning past, and we'd see his red taillights blink on." I feel that this is a very vivid passage in "Lights" by Stuart Dybek. To me the word vivid means something that you can picture in your head. It is something that you could imagine happening right infront of you face. In this passage I can imagine the driver that honks to thank them having a smile on his or her face. I can also imagine the embarrassed driver trying to hide his or her face becaused they are embarrassed.




2. The author Stuart Dybek changes his attitude. In the beggining of the essay he is calmn and seems like he used to have fun calling out to drivers when they did not have their lights on. Toward the end of the essay Dybek seems a little angree. It seems like he is annoyed by they drivers that are drunk, high, or stubborn.



3. The object that stood out to me the most in "The Things They Carried" was the sling shot that Lee Strunk carried. He called it his weapon of last resort. This stood out to me the most because that men carried so many different types of guns, explosives, and many other types of weapons and he decides to bring a sling shot with him. I would never imagine anyone at war attempting to use a sling shot to kill or injur anyone.