{"id":335,"date":"2025-09-11T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=335"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:20:48","slug":"tanners-reading-question-for-september-16-not-so-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Tanner’s Reading Question for September 16 (Not So Quiet…)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The narrator, Smithy, mentions “Mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington” when talking about her days in war, what she sees, and what she hears, starting on page 90. It is as if she is walking them through her life in the war and showing them around. She interrupts herself to address these women. Why does she mention her mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington when accounting events of war days? What is the effect? Does Smithy seem to hold anger or sadness in these moments (or both)? What can this say about the older generations compared to the generations involved in the war?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In chapter five we are met with B.F. preparing to leave, the women giving speeches, and a argument between Skinny and Tosh. Given this range of relationships, how can we compare and contrast the friendships between the women drivers and Paul with his comrades on the front? More minutely, what is there to be said about the relationship these women have to one another, be that dislike or closeness, and how relationships are formed or broken in their situation? Does the proximity play a role in their attitudes towards each other or is it outside forces?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. In chapter 6-8 it is mentioned that The Bug is not doing well mentally and physically due to the war, and the way she is treated by Commandant. Tosh and Smithy hold intense worry for her and try their best to help. How does seeing the effect of the war on The Bug, who is not on the front but still being traumatized in similar ways, shape your view on the job of ambulance drivers? What is the emotional response to the horrors of the job explained throughout the latest chapters, especially in effect of the characters: Smithy, The Bug, and Tosh? What is the war and the job doing to them? <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}