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Narrator O Brien: Chapter Analysis

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In this chapter, narrator O 'Brien talks about how the men in the platoon were looking for Kiowa 's body after the rain had partially ceased. We find three different perspectives in the chapter: Lieutenant Jimmy Cross 's, the young soldier 's, and the rest of the men in the platoon. This quote belongs to Jimmy 's perspective. In it, we readers sense his feeling of guilt for loosing one of the men of his Company because he feels that Kiowa 's death was his mistake due to his lack of intuition that something bad could happen near the shit field and his lack of courage for refuting the higher

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