id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xg94hm53c8w Aaron S Mann Reading Military Character in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Phil Klay's Redeployment 2015 .txt text/plain 140 5 38 I propose that O'Brien and Klay present an alternative to plot structure as a means of presenting the experience of the combat soldier in war literature. If we are to embrace the belief that war's inherent confusion, anxiety, and resistance to coherent storytelling makes a construction of narrative through the traditional modes of plot unsatisfying, then what do O'Brien and Klay present as an alternative? cache/xg94hm53c8w.txt txt/xg94hm53c8w.txt