Chapter 20 Summary

Victor uses the television as a means to explain different events in his life. Victor talks about how his sisters were so hungry that they scraped bits of food off the table with their teeth and he talks about his brothers and sisters sniffing gas from an exhaust pipe.

Victor comments on how his father was drunk and stumbled down the stairs. Victor talks about starting a car in the cold winter with his father and his father's description of the first television he ever saw. Victor provides snippets of family history all during various television shows.

Chapter 20 Analysis

This chapter demonstrates how his family pieces together their family history. The family watches the television, which is so loud that it distorts conversations. This same kind of distortion shows up when they remember the past. Victor explains that they piece their history together...