Part 2, Seeing the Truth: Chapters 20-26 Summary

In Chapter 20, the next day, Torchie and the others ignore Martin. For this reason, Martin gets into a war of words with each of his teachers. At lunch, Martin sits with Trash. In his afternoon classes, Martin again gets into arguments with his teachers. During detention, Mr. Davis comes to get Martin.

In Chapter 21, Mr. Davis hooks Martin up to an odd machine and makes him look at a succession of pictures. Mr. Davis tells Martin to say whatever comes to mind when he sees each picture. Martin assumes he will be punished in some way for saying something bad, so he only says good things. However, curiosity overcomes him and Martin says something bad about a picture of a teacher and receives a shock. Mr. Davis then tells Martin that they held...