Tim O’Brien’s in the lake of the woods

Names:     Date:     Through chapter 14. Use complete sentences except for question six.   1.  Describe John Wade from the outside as a political candidate. What is his image? John Wade is a good politician, able to lie and smile, and mask his inner feelings of rage in order to do what needs to get done. 2.  Describe John Wade as you know him from the narrator’s research. John Wade had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the war, as he portrayed a character who was changed forever by the atrocities and evils witnessed in war. 3.  Explain the glide (with examples).  The glide is an altered state of consciousness, as if the body and mind follow a different accord in order to preserve life and do what needs to get done in war or other situations.  “He'd lost touch with his own volition, his own arms and legs, and in the hours afterward he would remember how he seemed to glide toward the enemy position—not running, just a fast, winging, disconnected glide—circling in from behind, not thinking at all, slipping through a tangle of deep brush and keeping low and letting the glide take him up to a little man in black trousers and a black shirt.”  John remembers being very efficient in movement and losing his decision making but letting him kill and do acts which he would have deemed evil.  4.  Describe John’s plan.  John’s plan was to create a change in society, and had an ambition to bring justice to the evils done by the Americans in the Vietnam war by winning a spot in the office and doing the legal basis for change.  5.  How is Sorcerer different from John?  Sorcerer is  John’s alter ego, one who he believes has special aptitude and skills, and can use illusions or magic to ...