In the chapters we read this time, i saw ALOT of times where i really began questioning the stories that were being told. In the letter Bowker wrote to O'Brien, he says he "If [(the author)]want[s], [he] can use the stuff in th[e] letter.(But not [his] real name)." Right now you're thinking what?! So you start thinking this whole story including him was all made up or the guy isn't who he says he is. Then later is says "Norman Bowker's letter hit [him] hard." After explaining to you that the guy didn't want his real name in there, it makes you really think about if it actually is his real name, the whole thing's a confusing MESS!
After a couple chapters (or that really long one) O'brien tells you yet another piece of the novel that was a complete story; "The Man I Killed". That was, hands down, the best chapter for me so far. It made you feel the emotion and awe that he was going through and it also made you realise how much agony a soldier can have over tha death of someone he knew nothing about. That's exactly what O'Brien was trying to do though. "I want you to feel what i felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes then happening-truth." What he's basicalling saying here is that he can tell you stories about everything that happened. He could describe to you how much he carried with him everyday, but we'd never fully understand and see it the way he did. He is simply explaining to us through examples of different events to get us to get a small glipse of what pain he endured. He sweeps you into a story about mistakes, shock, regret, disgust, and heart ache: gets you to have that feeling deep in your stomache, and showing you that that's what killing ONE man feels like. O'Brien would tell you a story about loosing love, fighting without a meaning, witnessing soemone die infront of you and say "That's what it feels like to be away from home for so long." It's all one big mess of pure genious...
