American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1728 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Weight of the Things They Carried
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The idea
The anchor prints Bobbie Ann Mason's response, that the story hit her hardest of anything she had read in a decade, like a hundred-pound rucksack thrown at her, and that the list of things carried extends to the burden of memory and desire and confusion and grief.
In practice
Equipment listed, then feeling listed with it.
Where people slip
The response quoted is Bobbie Ann Mason's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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