Read the excerpt from dispatches. because, really, what a choice there was; what a prodigy of things to be afraid of! the moment that you understood this, really understood it, you lost your anxiety instantly. anxiety was a luxury, a joke you had no room for once you knew the variety of deaths and mutilations the war offered. the purpose of the paradox in the excerpt is to illustrate the narrator’s desire to relieve his uneasiness. reinforce the physical and emotional challenges of war. show that indulgences are stolen during war, not provided. highlight the idea that fear can be viewed in different ways.

As we can see, according to this excerpt from Dispatches, the purpose of the contradiction (or paradox) shown here is to highlight the idea that fear can be viewed in different ways.

The narrator claims that fear, or anxiety in this case, is actually considered a luxury in war. The paradox being something that does not make sense logically, because no one would consider fear a luxury under normal circumstances.

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highlight the idea that fear can be viewed in different ways.

Explanation:

it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.

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