... 'science', there is ample evidence of him being very empirical. This is displayed in the very first chapter, 'Later I wondered why it had not been blown away. Later still I discovered that the wind at five hundred feet was not the same that day as the wind at ground level.' Because of his scientific characteristics, he believes everything must be based on fact. He has an overriding need to establish facts in order to see his 'truths' and believes only in rational actions, particularly in human beings. Further evidence of this is the revisiting of the accident repeatedly in his mind, and the eventual physical revisiting to the scene of the accident, in chapter fifteen, to find answers. However, this theory, along with many of his, is flawed. In trying to understand the chain reaction that occurs within the novel, he himself acts irrationally and with genuine feeling, but of ...

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