Lastly, structure is best represented by Tim O’Brien and Kevin Powers to protest war. In the novel, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien (Doc C), structure is used in the form of a list where the author lists all the weights of the things he carries. For instance, “Because the land was mined…, Because you could die so quickly…, Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet…,” this represents parallel structure which is when a number of sentences follow the same pattern. In other words, this quote portrays cause and effect because even if you are prepared, you can die at any given moment. Throughout the novel O’Brien lists the weight of all the materials soldiers lugged through the Vietnam War which was very difficult. In
