Chapter 5

“God, they call this a town?” (Chapter 5, pg. 34)

This was said to make the towns people feel like they needed to take better care of they town than what they been doing. The way it was described in the book, the town was pretty bad and needed allot of work. So, as the Mayor Joe Starks decided to beautify the town and make it nice, comfortable, and livable.

“Take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches, with banisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the “big house”. And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it – a gloaty, sparkly white.” (Chapter 5, pg. 44)

At this part in the book, the town’s people were noticing what was going on. Starks was making them fix his house up before they actually started rebuilding the town. And the town’s people were getting a little upset.