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Joe Coutts
Cappy is a thirteen-year-old Chippewa boy and Joe's best friend. After Cappy’s mother’s death, he and his brother Randall were raised by their father Doe Lafournais. Cappy is handsome, charming, and an extremely loyal friend. He and Joe have a deep love for one another, and their friendship is notably intimate: they share shoes, talk about everything, and Joe even calls out Cappy’s name in his sleep. Cappy offers Joe support as he copes with Geraldine's trauma and he later helps Joe kill Linden Lark in retribution, despite Joe's protests that he wants to kill Linden alone so that Cappy won’t be legally accountable. However, Cappy saves Joe’s life by tailing him and delivering the shot that kills Linden when Joe is unable to do so. Over the course of the book, Cappy falls in love with Zelia, a Mexican American girl who comes to the reservation on a mission trip. Through her, Cappy becomes more religious. Cappy explores his adolescent sexuality with Zelia, and once she moves back to Montana, the young couple begins exchanging letters. After Lark’s death, Cappy dies in a drunk driving accident while in the car with Joe, Angus, and Zack on the way to see Zelia. Cappy’s loyalty and devotion to Joe are a formidable model of friendship in the book, and his death is a tragedy of adolescence that clearly still haunts Joe even years later.
Cappy Lafournais Quotes in The Round House
The The Round House quotes below are all either spoken by Cappy Lafournais or refer to Cappy Lafournais. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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In all those miles… there was nothing to be said. I cannot remember speaking and I cannot remember my mother or my father speaking. I knew that they knew everything. The sentence was to endure… I do remember, though, the familiar sight of the roadside café just before we would cross the reservation line. On every one of my childhood trips that place was always a stop for ice cream, coffee and a newspaper, pie… But we did not stop this time. We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just kept going.
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Cappy Lafournais Quotes in The Round House
The The Round House quotes below are all either spoken by Cappy Lafournais or refer to Cappy Lafournais. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
In all those miles… there was nothing to be said. I cannot remember speaking and I cannot remember my mother or my father speaking. I knew that they knew everything. The sentence was to endure… I do remember, though, the familiar sight of the roadside café just before we would cross the reservation line. On every one of my childhood trips that place was always a stop for ice cream, coffee and a newspaper, pie… But we did not stop this time. We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just kept going.
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