"He said he had thought of taking his own life instead, after climbing to the head of the Statue of Liberty, 'because nobody had done it there before.'"(p.77).
Chapman's goal is to shock the world. Even though he clearly killed Lennon because of personal reasons, he ultimately just wanted to make a splash. Chapman wanted to be someone that people talked about and he didn't seem to care why they were talking about him. The image attached is that of an explosion. The connection I made to this was that Chapman was willing to destruct anything and everything to ultimately be known. He didn't seem to care what the repercussions were of his actions, the damage that would be done to him and his family, so long as everyone knew the name Mark David Chapman.
Image: http://library.artstor.org/library/iv2.html?parent=true
Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down (London: Virgin Publishing, 1992), page 77
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