The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

anaphora "not to anyon not my parents, not to my brother or sister, not even me wife" what is the author trying to achieve from this anaphora?

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The confessionary tone of the story is established with this quote. It means the reader is looking at something private that the author has kept bottled up for so many years. We understand that the protagonist will be honest with us ad it foreshadows the gravity of the situations about to unfold.

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