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by Tobias Wolff
About 68 pages (20,534 words)
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Chapter 2, Uncool (pgs. 76-84) Summary and Analysis

Toby and his friends are smoking cigarettes in the bathroom during lunch. Toby says he shot and killed a turkey over Thanksgiving. Silver does not believe him. Soon, Taylor disbelieves him as do the two "weed fiends" who are also in the bathroom. Toby yells, "fuck you" at all of them and then carves it into the fresh paint on the bathroom wall.

The new Vice Principal, known for being a shrewd man, goes class to class to find who wrote, "fuck you" on the bathroom wall. Toby's fear of the Vice Principal manifests itself as stomach cramps, and he heads to the nurse. The Vice Principal finds Toby and accuses him of the crime. The nurse tries to defend him, but starts to believe the Principal, which makes.....

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