Part 1: Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 Summary

Emma is suspected of Communist activities and is visited by FBI agents who eventually take her to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. for questioning. Emma tires of the process and leaves, without permission, to return to New York, where she receives a two-month suspension of her cab driver's license. Emma then learns that the FBI had shut her down and cooperates fully after this event.

Claude begins to go to the movies as a diversion from his life and completely immerses in the stories unfolding on the big screen. Claude is only ten years old, but is annoyed that he is forced to sit in the children's section of the theater and maintains the greatest distance possible from the other children.

Mr. Weisfeld offers Claude a job in his store so that Claude becomes almost completely self sufficient...