Answer:
Option c. In "The Things They Carried", the weight of the soldiers' gear is a recurring motif.
Step-by-step explanation:
"The Things They Carried" is a compilation of connected short-stories written by American author Tim O'Brien that was first published on May 28th, 1990. it tells the story about Tim's personal experience during the Vietnam War, as well as his recollections of other soldier's stories. In the different short-stories one of the recurring motifs is the weight of the soldiers' gear. O'Brien is not only physically describing item by item that the soldiers had to carry with them at all times, and the burden it meant, but is also using the gear's weight as a symbol of the psychological weight and burden the war had on every soldier, and how heavy it felt to be in that circumstance.