Chapter Seven

In chapter seven Matt gets an e-mail from Ursula. He wonders why Ursula sends him an e-mail, but not his friends he had asked for that before. After getting the e-mail, Matt calls Ursula to talk about the day. Ursula wanted Matt to call her, because she wants to witness for him.

The most shocking text passage, in my opinion, was that one with Matt’s thoughts during the interrogation (p. 58/59, ll. 22-11). Matt extremely suffered from the irksome questions.

Matt despairs of the interrogation and almost wants to confess, “Matt came to understand why a person in custody, though innocent, suddenly confesses” (p. 58, ll. 22/23).

He never had to sustain such a stressful situation. The police officers don’t want to believe him. He loses his hope to find someone who can prove that he’s absolutely innocent.

He even gets in the situation to be angry enough that he wants to quit the interrogation by being violent, “Matt had come close to breaking down in the interrogation room. Shouting in their faces – “Yes! I do want to murder you all.” Attacking the detective … strangle him … wrestle his gun … shoot the bastard”. He’s absolutely desperate. His life breaks down. Everything will be destroyed.

I was really shocked that Matt reacts like that. I couldn’t imagine that he’d consider to resort to violence.