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Narration Prompt
Summarize the evening twice: once as the boys would tell it — a trip in the Wreck Room, a near-fight, couch talk, Zero's question, dinner — and once as the chapter actually stages it, with the reveal held to the final lines. Then state, in one sentence each, what the chapter establishes, what it implies, and what it deliberately withholds, and name the sentence doing the heaviest work in each category.
Discussion Questions
- In the near-fight, Stanley is protected by a name he does not yet know belongs to him. What does that moment reveal about how power works among the boys, and why does 'the Caveman' carry authority before Stanley even understands it? Use the exchange in the Wreck Room scene to defend your reading.
- Stanley does not tell his mother the truth about camp, and the boys call him 'Caveman' before he has said much of anything. Which of those two facts changes this chapter more, and what does each cost Stanley? Use the chapter's words to defend your judgment, and explain why you ranked them that way.
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