Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Things They Carried

I noticed that in some of the sections, O’Brien uses a repetition of structure. Though that is hard to show here, due to formatting, certain lines line up in a fashion that it is the same line on top of itself. It first came up on page 7 when O’Brien writes “they all carried…they all carried.” When a reader looks at these two lines, they see the exact same line-up. This same idea is on page 36 with the repetition of “Kiowa saying…”

My question is why? What is the purpose of setting it up this way?


(I may have a possible answer but I’m not sure if I should include it. Something to do with the the position and the repetition and the militarist mindset.)

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