In this chapter we learn that the previous chapter was based off of a man who responded to one of O'Brien's books. He ended up hanging himself. I guess adjusting to society was just to hard for him. After coming back from the war, he missed it way too much. They say that the war changes you. I guess it changes you for good. Reading the last chapter and realizing the sadness this man was going through, I figured something like this would happen. Norman Bowker was so seperated from society that he didn't even want to go home to his dad. All he wanted to think about and talk about was the war. It really makes you re-think the last chapter and understand the emotional strain Bowker was going through.
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