Chapter 2 Summary

Reuven is rushed to the Brooklyn Memorial hospital and he has intense pain in his left eye. Mr. Galanter will not tell him what is going on and everyone at the hospital tells him he is going to be fine. He sees a doctor and becomes nervous when more than one doctor is called in to determine his condition. Reuven wears glasses and a hint is given as to the intensity of his accident. Reuven looks at the light in the hospital and comments that he has never seen a light with so many different colors in it. This implies that Reuven's glasses have been broken and some of the glass has lodged in his left eye.

Reuven falls asleep for nearly two days and awakes in the hospital ward, hesitant about his surroundings. He meets an ex-boxer named Mr. Savo who lies...