In this chapter, Marcus ends up back at Treasure Island. Severe Haircut lady was still there and put Marcus through the beginning stages of water boarding before being rescued by the journalist. I had always heard about water boarding but the description in the chapter as it must have felt for Marcus to go through it was horrific. I nearly cried. I could not imagine what it must feel like to be strapped and up-side-down with the feeling that I was dying. So, water boarding is pretty much when someone uses water in an effort to make you talk, only you’re tied down and upside down with streams and then rivers and then waterfalls worth of water going over the chin, the lips and eventually up the nostrils. It then goes to the back of the throat and begins to choke the individual. If the person coughs or gasps, it just brings the water right into the lungs.
The chapter concludes with the workers at Treasure Island being arrested, Marcus is still alive and there might be a light at the end of the tunnel as the California Highway Patrol were the ones who helped save the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
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