In the story summary below, how does the author's use of parallel plots help create effects that could not be achieved with a typical linear plot?
In a contemporary novel, three adult children must return home and decide how to care for their ill and elderly father. The novel explores the lives of each of the siblings, who are very different and not very close. The different plotlines all include suggestions about how the siblings' upbringing in this particular family affected their personalities and current situations. Unexpected similarities among the siblings' personalities also suggest that though they are different on the surface, they may not actually be that different deep down.
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Structuring the novel with parallel plots gives the author more opportunities to use description and dialogue than a typical linear plot.

The choice to use parallel plots instead of a typical linear plot helps the author keep the story simple and direct, limiting digressions and extra details.

Using parallel plots instead of a typical linear plot allows the author to give a larger and more complex picture of what this family is like as a whole.

The parallel plots help show that even though the siblings are part of the same family, the oldest son has the most interesting relationship with his father.