Summary

Chapter 16 is subtitled “S.T.: Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington, USA.” As the sun was setting, S.T. decided to leave Dennis at the zoo turnstile and explore alone. Leaving his friend felt like leaving a valuable cache of treasures, such as golf balls and hood ornaments. Inside the zoo, S.T. was disgusted to find that the penguins were no longer confined in their enclosure. S.T. remembered that Big Jim made fun of penguins because they couldn’t fly. S.T. was also disgusted to see a pair of crows playing overhead, not taking the current world situation seriously. The zoo was being overrun by weeds, vines, and overgrown landscape plants. A Komodo dragon came into view. It dropped the meerkat it had been holding in its jaws to study S.T. The crow shouted at the lizard that “This is the...