The author’s syntax moves from a sense of Paret’s unpredictable defeat to an order of events creating a suspense and finally, to an extended complex sentence . In the beginning, the paragraph starts off with declarative sentences as it describes the protagonist in this case, Benny Paret. As Benny Paret’s information is being distributed to the audience, the use of periodic sentence, slowly transitions to the main idea and to fully make sense of the overall passage. Rather than announcing right away the death of Paret the author does not announce it until the very end to allow the audience to keep reading. In the middle the syntax begins it order of events creating a suspense through the combination of several short and long sentences. Just
