"Death in a beautiful and elegant place seemed the only alternative to the razor-blade fear of walking through life without a personality that he could recognize, from one moment to the next, as his own" (p.137).
Mark David Chapman intended to commit suicide upon arriving to Hawaii. Chapman felt like he had no purpose in life and wanted to die in an beautiful place. The irony was that the beauty invigorated life back into Chapman and made him want to live. Chapman was inspired by the beauty that he was surrounded in to make his life worth something, he wanted to live to continue to see more beautiful things. The image is of Hawaii to capture the beauty that Chapman was seeing. It captures the serenity of the location and shows accurately the reason that Chapman found in living.
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Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down (London: Virgin Publishing, 1992), page 137
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