- Now, the story about Ozzie is being told.
- Ozzie was a boy who had moved to lived with nuns in a convent because his stepfather use to beat him, his mother was a drunkie and he always heard strange noises from his parents and the beating the "man" did to his mother.
- One day, his mother was bruised up and bleeding. She came into Ozzies room and told him that she had to leave, but she would be back. She never did.
- When his stepdad found out she was gone he gave Ozzie the worst beating of his life.
- "Your Pa is poor and your Ma is a whore. That was the refrain he heard in school" (229). The kids stopped teasing him after his mom was already dead.
- I think Ozzie is the next fader! "He held up his hand and couldn't see his hand. Could see the room, the floor" (238).
- There's a stranger in town and he's looking for Ozzie!
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- Why didn't she take Ozzie with her to protect him?
- Will Ozzie become a violent person with no feelings after everything he has been through?
- Is Ozzie the next fader?
- So, no one taught Ozzie how to fade?
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- Convent (228): a community of people devoted to religious life under a superior
- Sniveling (233): to weep or cry
- Debris (242): the remains of anything broken
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- "She was old herself, brown spots on the backs of her hands, face wrinkled like a crumpled paper bag" (229). Simile.
- "Until Ozzie fell asleep as cold dawn touched the windows" (231). Personification.
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- Ozzie has learned to endure and is now beginning to have simptoms that Paul was having as he bagan his fade!
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