Chapters 13 and 14 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 13: The Big Time, the winter of '78 held good news for John. He reunited with Little Bear. She had abandoned him because of a lie that someone had told about him. They resumed their friendship and eventually moved in together. A national sound company hired John. The company had done sound for Pink Floyd tours. Pink Floyd had the biggest sound system in the world. John came to their attention when he noticed that the amplifiers at a concert at Amherst were breaking down. He told Mick, the head of the sound company known as Britro, that he could fix the them.

Mick brought John to a workroom at their facility and he was astonished at the whole wall of amplifiers that were in need of repair. In three days, he fixed all but two of them...