Bits and pieces

O' Brien did not write this book as just one continual story that followed a specific timeline. It's written in many miny stories as I have mentioned in previous blogs. Becuase of this, O' Brien tends to reiterate parts of stories he had already talked about. But also what he will do is foreshadow events that he will eventually come to. For example, on page 37, he says, "A slim, dead, dainty young man of about twenty. Kiowa saying, 'No choice, Tim. What else could oyu do?' Kiowa saying, 'Right?' Kiowa saying, 'Talk to me.' " This gives the impression that maybe Tim killed a man but I was never too sure. Then this was affirmed in the chapter "The Man I Killed." In this chapter he goes into detail about how he killed the man and how he felt about it after. I like how O' Brien foreshadowed because it goes along with what he was explaning at the time and it also keeps you wanting to know what was really going on when Kiowa was talking to him.