Summary

Jose is panicked when he is pulled over for speeding, which is highly uncharacteristic. This is his first encounter with law enforcement and he is relieved when the sheriff is called away and lets him off with a warning. This incident reinforces his feeling of being removed from the historical events he is covering on the campaign trail, "like I had no right to be there" (104). Not long after, it is announced that Jose is part of a journalistic team that has just won the Pulitzer Prize. Instead of feeling elated, Jose is panicked again that someone will find out his secret. As he writes, "the lies had gotten so big that they swallowed everything up, including all the good things" (105). That day, Jose decides that the lies have to stop as he is infected with paranoia and is unable to "be...