The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, in which the narrator explains that he is nursing a patient who is wearing a cast on his left hand. He asks the patient to lend him a hand, but the patient is unable to do so because he is wearing only one leg. The narrator then explains that the patient was made to live in two roles, one as a prisoner and the other as a guard, for two weeks.
The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, in which the narrator explains that he is nursing a patient who is wearing a cast on his left hand. He asks the patient to lend him a hand, but the patient is unable to do so because he is wearing only one leg. The narrator then explains that the patient was made to live in two roles, one as a prisoner and the other as a guard, for two weeks.