Gephi was pretty tricky to figure out, and I'm afraid my poor little screenshot is a testament to the learning curve I struggled with tonight. I spent some time arranging the connections I found in the first chapter of Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried in an Excel spreadsheet, but I was unable to successfully transfer this file into Gephi. I did eventually figure out (with help from Dalia, thanks!) how to manually enter and alter the nodes and the edges. As important as human connections are in this book, connections to material objects (and the human emotions these objects represent, cycle of object-human contact?) are often the focus within the chapters, as the books title might suggest. So within the first chapter, every character is connected by an object such as the flak jacket they all carry (and many more objects, war related or otherwise). The soldiers within the platoon, however, do not all talk to each other in this first chapter. Jimmy Cross and Kiowa have the most human interactions, the former being the First Lieutenant (and the only character in this chapter to discuss a character not present within the chapter, Martha). From a visual perspective, it is neat to see the draw that physical objects can have in a "social network" disrupted by war, as the material possessions these men carry tie them together more than their interactions with each other.