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The narrator cannot recall exactly how the conflict happened
This helps the reader understand how quickly and chaotically the fight began.
Source: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, page 22. Published by Houghton Mifflin,
New York 1960:
I do not know what happened first, whether it was my father who raised his
hand against the hunter..., whether it was this man who stepped
forward... and shoved my father aside. It all happened so quickly that I could
not tell one act from the other.