Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from Cancer Ward

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Oleg's boots - Oleg has kept these items from his army service, and will not give them up to anyone, even during inspections.

Ush-Terek - Oleg and the Kadmins have been exiled to this small town on the steppes of the Soviet Union, far from Moscow.

Cancer Ward - This hospital is in a remote part of the country, but not too far from Moscow. It is a large, gray brick building, about seventy years old, and is surrounded by poplars and maple trees.

Doctors' Lounge - This is an area reserved...
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