The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

Anaphora "At night, sometimes, Lieutenant Cross wondered who had taken the picture, because heknew she had boyfriends, because he loved her so much, and because he could see the shadow of the picture taker spreading out against the brick wall.." (pg. 12)

what is the the author's purpose by using this? why is the auother suing this/ and how does this affect the authors purpose?

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Cross "humped" or carried a picture of Martha. The picture represents the world outside of war. Cross sees it as a foreign world, a metaphor of someone or something that is the feminine. He cannot have this world so he muses about the picture and what it represents.

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