In these two chapters their is not really a narrator, only someone telling us the story, O'Brien also tells this story in third person. I think O'Brien chooses to write this way because he is trying to show the readers that it is to hard to write about yourself personally killing someone. It seems like O'Brien has a problem admitting to himself that he killed someone.
O'Brien knows many details about the man he killed, I think he knows all of these details because the person he killed had a special impact on him. Even if O'Brien didn't pay much attention to the man he killed after, he still saw him dead, for at least a second. Killing someone can be very traumatic, leaving every detail in your mind. I think the details that come from the man O'Brien killed are just details from every person he saw dead in the war.
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