In Our Time | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

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

The Quai at Smyrna - The dock at the city of Smyrna in Turkey where the Greeks evacuated troops and civilians in 1922.

The Indian Camp - The temporary settlement in the bush where Nick Adams' father takes him when he performs an emergency operation on an Indian woman.

The Logs - These have been beached on Nick Adams' father's property.

The Mill - Nick and his girlfriend, Marjorie, row past the deserted ruins of this logging and lumbering operation on their fishing outing.

The Barricade - The wrought-iron grating erected on a...
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