Chapters 11 and 12 tell sad stories about Andy and Karen. Andy is an alcoholic whose father beat him and kicked him out of the house when he was fifteen. Karen was a woman Richard related to - someone of means once - someone who had lost it all.
C solicits help from Richard to collect Andy from the alley behind the 7-Eleven - I want to get to him before the police do, C explains.
- What would we do if someone like Andy was in Saranac Lake or Lake Placid?
- Is there anyone like Andy in Saranac Lake or Lake Placid?
- One year Andy was picked up by the police forty-four times; they would let him "dry out" for four or five hours, and then send him back out on the street. How many more times should the police pick up Andy?
- (P. 147) C charged Brian ten dollars a month to rent a front seat of his "Armadillo". How did C determine what would he would charge Brian?
- How do we determine how much to charge people?
- Have you ever been in "no toilet" land?
- Richard tells us: I didn't feel sorry for Andy ... Do you?
- In Chapter 12 we meet Karen. Richard writes: All the things that made her "Karen" were gone. What are the things that make you you?
- Read Karen's poems again (P 161 -163). How do you feel as you read them? Why?
- How do you think Karen felt in her final seconds of life?
- Richard ponders Karen's eternal status - Is she in hell, or heaven? Which do you think? Why?
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