The first six chapters

After reading the first six chapters, we get some information about O'Brien's (the character) life before, after, and during the war. The storyline is not in chronological order which makes it a little more interesting. My favorite chapters from the first six are enemies and friends. I decided to answer one of the questions that Mr,Coltrane put on moodle about these two chapters.

"Why did Dave Jensen break his own nose?"
     - this happens in the fifth chapter "enemies". Dave Jensen had gotten in a fight with Lee Strunk about a missing pocket knife and Jensen ended up breaking Strunk's nose. After Strunk had gotten his nosed fixed up and all, Jensen became paranoid that Strunk would wanna seek revenge; after about a week of being reparanoid Jensen broke is own nose. I think that he broke his own nose because he wanted to Strunk that they are even now, they both have broken noses and Jensen just wanted to get over his paranoia. War was already tough enough and having enemies on the same side as you would have caused a lot of mental damage. What I found funny was when Strunk says that he stole the pocket knife and that revealed that Jensen was paranoid for nothing, because Strunk wasn't going to seek revenge because he kind of deserved getting his nose broken.