Comparing Boys And The Things They Carried

The pieces I chose are “Boys” by Rich Moody and “The Things they Carried” by Tim O'Brien. “Boys” doesn't use any paragraphs, and is told through the repeated words “Boys enter the house…” (Moody). The piece true there story of two twin boys who grow up as normal, mischievous boys. As they grow up, they go through hardships and drift apart. It isn't until they exit the house after the paramedics take their father’s body or are they “no longer boys” (Moody). “The Things they Carried” features the story of an American platoon during the Vietnam War. The story is took off out of chronological order as the reader is told of one of the soldiers death in the second paragraph. It isn't until the middle of the story that it is revealed exactly