Summary

In the evening, Noah takes a look through the journal in which Michael is supposed to be writing. (Michael is taking time off of school for the trip, so the journal counts towards school credit.) Noah sees that Michael has mostly just drawn humorous, gruesome drawings of things tangentially related to their experiences on the trip. They have local seafood for dinner, and Noah manages to make Michel laugh by making a somewhat crass joke. Michael briefly talks about his family, like his uncle Cody. Cody is paralyzed below the waist due to a ricochet bullet fired by an armed robber. Noah briefly reflects on how living in neighborhoods with high crime rates is kind of like living in a city under siege during wartime. As Noah struggles to fall asleep that night, he wonders if Margot could possibly have secretly worked as an...