Structural Techniques Structure in a novel can improve the story to make it a more important story. The structure in the stories help make them become a form of literary fiction. In the stories The Things They Carried and Love Medicine, the authors use multiple different structure techniques to help improve their stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more difficult to read. Both of these stories use multiple point of views, verb tenses, and several other techniques to tell their story.
Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in …show more content…
Foremost, both of the books are told as a collection of short stories. The Things They Carried is told by Tim O’Brien like he is telling multiple war stories. But, some of the stories do not connect with the main story, like how on page 125 he says he killed a man for the first time with a grenade, but in “The Man I Killed” before that he shows how he shot the man. Both of the stories also do not have a linear plot because they jump around from story to story. In Love Medicine, Albertine is old enough to have been going to college the first time she is seen on page 7, but later in the story she was still a kid when Henry Junior considered her jailbait on page 167. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien goes back to tell the story of when he drove north to try to get away from the war on page 44. The stories also show morals as an idea. In The Things They Carried, the story about Rat trying to inflict as much pain as possible on the water buffalo on page 75, and in Love Medicine Lulu says that no one understood her, and she really loved the whole world on page 272. Both of these stories show that morals can be different for different people, because what they both did would be seen as bad morals to normal Americans, but it does not necessarily make them bad
Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in …show more content…
Foremost, both of the books are told as a collection of short stories. The Things They Carried is told by Tim O’Brien like he is telling multiple war stories. But, some of the stories do not connect with the main story, like how on page 125 he says he killed a man for the first time with a grenade, but in “The Man I Killed” before that he shows how he shot the man. Both of the stories also do not have a linear plot because they jump around from story to story. In Love Medicine, Albertine is old enough to have been going to college the first time she is seen on page 7, but later in the story she was still a kid when Henry Junior considered her jailbait on page 167. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien goes back to tell the story of when he drove north to try to get away from the war on page 44. The stories also show morals as an idea. In The Things They Carried, the story about Rat trying to inflict as much pain as possible on the water buffalo on page 75, and in Love Medicine Lulu says that no one understood her, and she really loved the whole world on page 272. Both of these stories show that morals can be different for different people, because what they both did would be seen as bad morals to normal Americans, but it does not necessarily make them bad