Chapters 1 and 2 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 1: A Little Misfit, John Robison's three-year-old playmate, Doug, annoyed him. When John had all blue blocks stacked up, Doug would put a red one on top to mess it up. John would whack him on both ears which would make his mother and father very upset. Doug was John's only friend. When Doug's father graduated from medical school, they moved away. Years later John would learn that Doug fell in an irrigation ditch and drowned. But his mother kept the news from him when he was young.

John's mother enrolled him in preschool. The kids didn't like him and he got in trouble for hitting them even though he thought he was just petting them. John liked a little girl named Chuckie. He tried very hard to make friends with her but at she resisted. John became...