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The Things They Carried Study Guide

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by Tim O'Brien
About 70 pages (21,075 words)
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Chapter 5 Summary

One day, Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk get into a fistfight because Jensen believed Strunk had stolen his jackknife. Jensen, much bigger than Strunk, manages to break the smaller man's nose. Under normal circumstances, things might have ended there, but Vietnam has made Dave Jensen paranoid, and he believes Strunk is out for revenge. Finally, he can't stand it any longer, so he breaks his own nose with the butt of his pistol and asks Strunk if they are now square with each other. Strunk agrees, but.....

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