Part 1, Chapters 6-10 Summary

Chapter 6: Louis returns home later that night feeling petty. The Crandalls do not presume to ask him for free medical advice. In fact, by the time he arrives, Norma is already asleep. Louis feels immediately at home sitting on Jud's screened-in porch. A large truck cruises past them along the road separating their houses. Jud warns Louis about the truck traffic on the road. He refers to the path that Ellie noticed earlier and tells Louis that it leads to a pet cemetery. The road "'uses up a lot of animals,"' warns Jud (pg. 15). Louis mentions that Ellie has a cat. Jud advises Louis to get Church fixed so that the cat will be less likely to cross the road. Louis agrees to consider it, but he loves Church's wildness. Before Jud's warning, he figured that since they...