Chapter 9 Summary and Analysis

Having just agreed to stay at the Clinic for another day, James returns to his room and looks at himself in the mirror. He still cannot look at himself in the eye. James leaves, cleans the toilets, and goes to breakfast in what has become his morning routine. Leonard joins him and tells him about his childhood mentor Michaelangelo, who gave Leonard his first job and adopted him when both of Leonard's parents died. James does not want to be the object of such an adoption for Leonard, but agrees to watch the football game with Leonard later.

Lincoln apologizes for siding with Roy in the matter of the group toilets. One of Roy's friends confessed that Roy had been trying to get James in trouble with the administration and even fouled the group toilets in an attempt to have James...