Summary

The first chapter in this section is narrated from Brick’s point of view. He tells how he went to the hospital the next day and played the song again with only two notes wrong. Rachel’s father told him that he was a mapmaker in the armed forces. They played together as if they were bombing an enemy. When they finished, the man suggested they play hide and seek. The man grabbed Brick around the waist and called him Charles. He promised that he did try to find Charles and begins to cry again asking the boy if he knew he had tried to find him. Even though he did not know what the man was talking about, Brick replied “I know” (85).

The following day the Pigeon Man accosted Brick in the courtyard of the apartments. He asked what the...