![]() They watch the game and shyly flirt with each other. The book inspires Eliza once more to gush about her dream of moving to New York City. Eventually, Charlie notices that she is reading Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. Although he wishes to speak to her, he doesn’t know what to say, so the pair sits in silence. He notices that she has lost weight, and she is speaking more properly than ever. Although he is the best player in the game, the captain was furious and yelled racial slurs at him.Ĭharlie notices Eliza is sitting on a hill behind him, also watching the game. Someone hit the ball toward Jeffery, who caught it for a moment and then dropped it. He asks Jeffery about it, and Jeffery tells Charlie that before the match, a town counselor addressed all the players about how great and strong Corrigan is. As Charlie watches the game, he notices more spectators than usual. Jeffery tells Charlie that there was a lot of upset about him being allowed to play, but umpires from out of town said that they had to let him play. Initially he was admitted onto the team so as to participate as a water boy, but since one of the starters got sick, he has been allowed to play. On the first day Charlie is allowed to leave the house, he goes to support Jeffery, who has finally been admitted to the cricket team. And all this time, he continues to fantasize about leaving Corrigan and moving to the city with Eliza. During his time in punishment, Charlie found solace and company in reading and writing. He kept looking for insight on why people committed these crimes, “why any of it had to happen, why these people did what they did,” but he never received a satisfying response (168). In the time that Charlie was grounded, news about Laura became more and more scarce, but he continued paying attention to any other news about other murders. He tells his wife, “there are things in this world that you don’t think I know, but I do,” and tells Charlie that he is extremely angry at his son and sends him to his room. Both Charlie and his father know what she is doing, so Charlie’s father takes this opportunity to end the yelling for the night. Although Charlie wishes his father would stand up for himself, he doesn’t, and Charlie is again left to wonder if his father “would ever stand up for what he believed to be right” (167).īefore the yelling ends, Charlie’s mother begins to pin blame on Corrigan for making Charlie insolent and disobedient. Charlie’s father just took it all in, never responding, looking at her with the same expression he looked at Charlie with when he arrived home that night: “in a faintly curious and disappointed way” (167). Charlie felt sad and defensive of his father, like his mother was taking the opportunity to attack him. ![]() She thought he “was so distant and self-involved that his own son could walk out in the middle of the night and he didn’t even know” (167). Charlie’s mother accused his father of being “a poor parent, a useless husband,” and “of not caring for either, not for anyone other than himself” (167). His mother yelled at him for some time, but it was Charlie’s father who incurred the majority of her wrath. The police bought his story easily, but that didn’t stop his parents from punishing him. During this interaction, Charlie “discovered a gift for lies” (164). The night the police were at his house, Charlie lied convincingly about being at Eliza’s in order to comfort her. It is the day after boxing day, December 27th. ![]() As the chapter opens, Charlie is finishing up his punishment for leaving that night with Jasper, which meant being grounded for weeks. ![]()
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