In the excerpt from The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien effectively develops his philosophy that a soldier carries pride, and that they also hold the burden to do terrible things to others for justice and most of all they have to experience terrible things. through his creative use of a variety of syntax techniques. One such technique is his use of polysyndeton. . He writes, “War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling, war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” The effect of this use of parallelism is showing that war is more than what is told in the media. Soldiers carry pride, and they have to do terrible things to others and experience terrible things such as death. Another syntax technique O’Brien inventively employs is
