Chapter 6 Summary

Three months later, it is 5:30 a.m., and the temperature is below zero, when Willie prepares for a morning run. It took him two months to go back to school, because he hates everybody to see that he cannot walk or talk the way he used to. He feels pitied now, as he drags the left side of his body around. His mind is just as sharp, but his speech is slow, so people treat him as if he is retarded. Everything he does is slow now.

Willie does not know if he will ever regain the brain function that he lost, but he is using his body as much as he can, to give the healthy parts of his brain a chance to compensate for the functioning he lost in the accident. Willie does a lot of hiding. He jogs while it...