Part 4, Chapter 8 Summary

That Sunday, Mick and his father go with his mother to Mars Hill Church, a new church she has found. After the service, Mick sees Russ and goes to talk to him. He apologizes for what happened in school.

Drew invites Mick to the lake later that day, and Mick resolves to stop taking steroids so he is no longer humiliated. He drives toward the lake but then decides he does not want to go because he does not want to stop taking steroids, and be a nobody.

Part 4, Chapter 8 Analysis

The second chance that Mick is offered also coincides with attending church. Between attending church and apologizing to Russ, the reader has hope that Mick might indeed take the second chance he has been afforded, but this will not be so. Instead of continuing to move further along in his...