Chapter 15 Summary and Analysis

After spending the night in the woods, James must rush to meet his parents and a lawyer named Randall who works with the Clinic. Randall tells James that the authorities in Ohio want him to serve three years in prison and refuse to make any kind of deal. Both James and his parents are shocked and dismayed at the news. James apologizes to his mother and, for the first time in his life, initiates physical contact with her. The Fury has always prevented him from embracing his parents, and although James continues to battle the Fury, he wins this fight and holds on to his parents despite his impulse to run.

The afternoon's group session deals with the biological science of addiction. James does not believe that addiction is a physical disease, but rather that such an argument is only an...