Pgs: 1-18 Part 2

So far it seems like O'Brien has taken a different approach to starting this story instead of introducing the characters by giving background information up front, he slowly reveals what kind of person they are by telling what they carry.

In another part of this chapter I noticed what I think is called a polysyndentone, however, this is not one of our literary terms I think that it's effectiveness helps to demonstrate O'Brien's [SYNTACTIC FLUENCY]. “But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and the helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest plus the unweighed fear.” (Pg. 6) O'Brien is describing that this guy is scared and because of this he carries a lot more supplies than most. He uses this polysyndentone to stretch out the syntax so that it coincides with the amount of weight that Lavender carried.