5) to provide a hint to the audience about what will happen later in the play
His son was going to war and Brown wanted his son to remember him.
According to how the narrative is made, specifically how he tells us what he's done and his situation, it can be intuited that he was struggling in that time and needed to eat, so he had to steal some food but he was planning to return it as soon as possible.
This is a complex sentence it includes a subordinate clause (one that CANNOT stand by itself), and a dependent clause. You can tell this because if I were to walk into a room and say, "When K and C read the same foldable....", you would be waiting to hear the rest, wouldn't you? A compound sentence has two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction (but, and, for, nor, or, so, yet). A simple sentence is just an independent clause.