Summary

Today I Am Not a Man – Sam explains that he wrote that list of words in response to a challenge from Billie, who accused him of being repressed and who dared him to say the hardest thing he can think of. He says he wrote those words to practice, but then realized that the hardest thing to say was not the actual words, but the circumstances in which the words were said. “It requires the hardest person, or people, to say it to” (457).

O Jews, Your Time Has Come! The speech of the Ayatollah, inciting Muslims to war, continues.

Come Home – After he finishes his speech, the Israeli Prime Minister sounds a shofar, a sacred ram’s horn that was a 2,000-year-old relic, in a symbolic calling of the Jewish people. Narration describes how the Prime Minister, as he...