All 7 Uses of
New Testament
in
The Things They Carried
- Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father, who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.†
Chpt 1 *New Testament = the second half of the Christian Bible which describes the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
- Kiowa always took along his New Testament and a pair of moccasins for silence.†
Chpt 1
- He wanted to say more, just to lighten up his sleep, but instead he opened his New Testament and arranged it beneath his head as a pillow.†
Chpt 1
- He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were.†
Chpt 1
- The kid's father taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, where Kiowa had been raised to believe in the promise of salvation under Jesus Christ, and this conviction had always been present in the boy's smile, in his posture toward the world, in the way he never went anywhere without an illustrated New Testament that his father had mailed to him as a birthday present back in January.†
Chpt 17
- Inside were a pair of moccasins and an illustrated New Testament.†
Chpt 17
- There were Christians among us, like Kiowa, who believed in the New Testament stories of life after death.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
the second half of the Christian Bible which describes the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, as well as other Christian teachings