"And I felt kind of sorry for Devin, but I didn’t let it show, and I made sure that I stayed on the big boys’ side of the invisible line that separated them from Devin, who was crying and snorting and looking like a trapped pig, which he was, in a sense, and waving his hands around in that girly way he had, his wrists all fluttery and floppy, which he should have just stopped doing, because that was how he’d got into trouble with the big boys to begin with."
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Importance: Here, the narrator explains why he and the other boys were always worried about coming into contact with the older boys who bullied them. He uses Devin Sleverding as an example. This passage suggests that the narrator's childhood was full of anxieties about appearing feminine, something that his father also instilled in him.

"She walked like a...
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