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…showed last 75 words of 1285 total…and the ones that do not conform to it suffer. Suffering makes life what it is- The reader can relate to John's life. He is the only one that has to endure emotions and pain, and thus the reader sees his life as real and not machine-like. This theme is further enhanced by the fact that John whips himself to free himself of guilt. This shows, more explicitly, that pain makes life seem real.