Part 1, Chapter 6
Sal doesn't know Dean well enough to call him up, so he calls Chad King. Chad seems bored with his friend's arrival and says that he has work to do. Apparently, the gang of friends has split. Chad no longer associates with Dean and Carlo Marx. To Sal, the friends' breakup is a "war with social overtones" Part 1, Chapter 6, pg.
38 because Dean is a wino's son who spent time in reform school and jail, while Carlo is an underground monster. For Chad, along with Tim Gray and Roland Major, these two are not the same. Sal sleeps in Chad's room. Chad's father has invented a sort of air conditioner that allows Sal to sleep in the dreadful heat, but it works too well. He wakes up because he is so cold. Sal eats dinner with the King family and there is no sign of Dean.
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