The story focuses primarily around two teenage boys: Torey Adams and Christopher Creed. Before Creed's disappearance, Plum-Ucci casts the two boys as opposites, but then blurs the distinctions. Before the disappearance Torey is the popular football star and the center of attention and Chris is the outcast no one bothers to understand.
After the disappearance, Torey loses his sense of importance and Chris takes center stage.
The presence of Chris Creed dominates the story though he never appears in the scenes. Torey Adams is the primary character and our only knowledge of Chris comes second hand. Because Torey narrates the story, it is Torey who makes Chris come alive and Torey whose insights build Chris's character. Readers view Christopher Creed much differently at the end of the novel than they do at the beginning,.....
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