Summary

In Chapter 6, Peralta describes his first two years at Collegiate School. He references how wealthy the other students seemed to be compared to him, describing how vivid the differences became to him when he visited the apartment of one of his friends. The visit, he adds, was one of only a few he actually made, because he felt too uncomfortable about his own relative lack of wealth. There was also, he says, a lot of teasing that went on, teasing that came close to bullying. He describes how, in his second year, his classmates latched on to the idea of teasing him about his mother, and specifically that she was somewhere between a sexual temptress and a prostitute. At one point, he says, he took revenge on one of his classmates by hiding his backpack, and at another point slammed that...