Confession...

For this blog I decided to focus on what we didn't have enough time to finish talking about in class and that is the Confession chapter.

- When I had first completed reading the Confession chapter I was shocked at the anger that seemed to be spewing in the words. It is obvious that the father finally boiled over. Could it have been false accusations that pushed him this far, or maybe how he was treated?

- In class we debated about whether or not this was a false confession. In my eyes, obviously it has to be. He talks about doing so many things and being so many places to commit acts that only a spy would. However, there are many areas where it's clear that the father couldn't have done what he admits to.
For example when the father says "I cut arrow-shaped swaths through my tomato fields to guide him the his next target" or when he says "I'm the slant-eyed sniper in the trees." These are things that we know the father is not capable of.

-I do not think that the confession is from the father being mentally run down into believing he is what the enemy thinks he his but, yet that it is a build up of raw emotion that he finally releases.

 - I think that all of the things that the father confesses to are probably just reiterations of what he was accused of but, presented in a sarcastic method.

-This may have been the fathers way of releasing the feelings he held in while in captivity and he seems to speak for many, many Japanese prisoners.