Summary

This section covers the details of how and why the narrator became a suspect in Lindy's rape. While the narrator and his father were away on their fishing trip, the narrator's mother discovered an unlocked box underneath her son's bed. Inside she discovered a cache of pornographic drawings of Lindy, items that used to belong to Lindy, condoms, the photo of Lindy taken by Mr. Landry, a pair of binoculars and Lindy's blue Reebok. All these items gave evidence to the narrator's obsession with Lindy and an extreme bent toward wanting to have sex with her. Most of the items he was able to explain away as a normal part of teenage sexual experimentation, but the binoculars and photograph held particular problems so he explains them in detail.

The narrator goes on to explain his relationship with Tyler Bannister, one of the Landry's...