Throughout the novel, O’Brien tries to find someone to blame for the many deaths that occurred in the war. For each soldier that dies, surviving characters, especially Jimmy Cross, struggle in finding a person or things responsible for the deaths of their fellow soldiers. He later explains that anyone or everyone can be at blame as he says “"You could blame the war...You could blame the enemy...You could blame whole nations...You could blame God...In the field, though, the consequences were immediate."(p.177). O’Brien may have written the chapter “In the Fields”, in order to represent his own inner struggle (as well as surviving veterans’ deaths) and to show the weight of all the blame and shame that he carries with him. He does this in describing the soldiers looking for Kiowa’s remains in the field filled with fecal matter. This chapter is his way of telling his readers that death is a tragedy that can change a person just like it changed him, Azar and the other soldiers in the novel (Sparknotes) In the previous chapter “Notes” O’Brien explains that "By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself"(158). He acknowledges and confirms that this story is his way of coping with his own trauma. As result he makes up a character representing himself as “Tim” and tries to separate this character from himself, so he then refers to him as “young soldier (p.170)” in chapter seventeen. In “In the Field” he repeats the young soldier’s emotional disturbance, "The young soldier was trying hard not to cry. He, too, blamed himself. (p.170). These feelings of shame and sorrow are a reflection of his own guilt. (Andrew's CIS Lit E-Notebook) In the novel O’Brien uses the soldiers searching for Kiowa’s body in the field as a way to show his own mind wandering around into his past as a soldier. He may be remembering times when he believed he could have saved someone but didn’