In a person's head, everything is stronger: he has his strongest sense of expression in his own mind. The reader can feel the narrator's emotion in its full capacity, untarnished, in his own head. The narrator repeatedly uses rhetorical questions, usually asking the same question: "Are you punishing me, my God?" (17). It's a simple but powerful question. The narrator is so upset by the situation she has imagined herself in that she feels as if a higher power is playing with her. There is no one else in the story to calm her down, so she embraces this idea and takes the reader along with her. She tries to make sense of the punishment she believes she is receiving, using repetition: "we didn't hurt anyone...things are only bad when they hurt people...we didn't hurt a single soul" (17), which creates a pleading tone. The narrator begs not to go through this, but the way she does it puts the reader on edge – the whole repetition is unsettling. How serious she is when talking to God in her head makes her seem very unstable, and since the point of view is limited to reading her thoughts and only her thoughts, there is no buffer. The reader only feels its instability. The end of the monologue contributes to the strange emotion that runs through the entire story, with the narrator sending a final appeal to God and ending with a countdown. (20).