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?

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They provide contrast or transitions to the long narrative. This re-focusses the reader or illuminates the text in some way.

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