On August 2,1998- almost two months after the first encounter and after emphasizing importance of
During March 2003,
At the beginning of The
However, war started to change her emotions, appearance and the way she thought and is exemplified when O’Brien describes: “‘It took a few seconds,’ Rat said, ‘to appreciate the full change. In part it was her eyes: utterly flat and indifferent. There was no emotion in her stare, no sense of the person behind it. But the grotesque part, he said, was her jewelry. At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues,’”
In the first chapter of