Notes: He used a jump rope.

"In the interests of truth, however, I want to make it clear that Norman Bowker was in no way responsible for what happened to Kiowa. 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." - p. 154

I can't help but think that this particular admission would have been of more use to Norman Bowker before he hung himself with that jump rope. =\ I'm not blaming O'Brien; Norman clearly had some deep-seated problems, but I almost feel that if he was writing the story with Norman's reading first in mind, the guy should've had a happier ending.

I mean, the guy hanged himself eight months after he read it. O'Brien made sure to point that out, so I feel like this chapter is primarily a profession of his own feelings of guilt.

Aside from that, I really don't have much to say about this chapter. I scoured page after page for lit-terms-in-action, and I found zero. I could talk about how round the characters of Norman and Tim are, I suppose. I mean... Tim's a real-life man, and Norman's allegedly a post-real-life man, so that's pretty much to be expected. Still... appreciate the dimensions, I guess.