Week 12.1: Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk






Homework:
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, 266-complete
Invention Exercises
Current Event
Reading Quiz 

Study Questions:
1. On page 306, Billy has a moment of relative humility. Over the course of the novel, Billy has believed that his version of reality has been the truth; however, now he comes to realize that it is subservient to the “homeland dream” of the “saps” and “innocents” in charge. What are we to make of this half-hearted reversal? What is Fountain trying to tell us?