Tone

In chapter 6, the narrator's tone shifts slightly when referring to Billy's experience in 1976. The narrator seems to become more distant when talking about Billy's death. The tone of this portion of the chapter is calm and understanding. Also, instead of telling the events of this part of the story in his own words, the author quotes a tape to make it clean that it is Billy. The tape says "I, Billy... will die, have died, and always will... 1967," (180). The point of this distance could be to distinguish Billy as a separate character than the author.