As last night's reading again shifted from the first person to the third person, we extended our lesson from yesterday discussing how the author uses the third person in order to objectify his wartime experiences and thus enable him to face them. We learn that in contrast to the earlier fictionalized version of the death of Kiowa, it was not N.Bowker who is responsible for the death but the author whom he describes In the story as "the young boy or soldier." But it is not only the author who blames himself; the commander does too which leads the author to explore causation ultimately deciding that in a random war and a random world everybody and nobody is responsible . We discussed human nature's need for clear causation or blame which the author suggests is illusory,.