"Norman did not experience a failure of nerve that night. He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor. That part of the story is my own." -pg. 154
After O'Brien tells an elaborate story about how Norman drove around and thought about his dad, he says he lied. It left me wondering what really happened. Kiowa really did die, so was Norman just not able to get a good grip? Maybe he almost died too. The fact that O'Brien can convey such curiosity through a fictitional situation is impressive. He received a letter from Norman but that was all he used to write about him. That is a prime example of good writing. I was surprised to find that he didn't chicken out. Even so, he felt so guilty that he killed himself. He lost a good friend, he saw the reality of his own mortality, and all of theses factors didn't leave him as the years went on.
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