The Things They Carried
the things they carried
5. Interspersed among long paragraphs crammed with detail are short one- or two-sentence paragraphs. What function do these brief paragraphs serve?
5. Interspersed among long paragraphs crammed with detail are short one- or two-sentence paragraphs. What function do these brief paragraphs serve?
They provide contrast or transitions to the long narrative. This re-focusses the reader or illuminates the text in some way.