It
rains almost every afternoon.
Ari finishes
The Grapes of Wrath and then
War and Peace.
Dad decides to read everything that Ari does.
Dante comes over every day and reads
The Sun Also Rises out loud to Ari. They talk about how sad it is, but they never discuss Dante’s sketches. Ari thinks that he’s punishing Dante by not looking at them, but he can’t figure out why he’s doing this. One day, Dante says that he saw a counselor. He asks if Ari is going to go and says that it helped. Ari points out that talking doesn’t help everyone.