I found the way chapter 13 opened
interesting. “For the next fifteen days we were together for better or worse.”
That basically states the closest he can get to fulfilling a matrimonial
commitment is two weeks. Two weeks is all it takes before reality set in and he
realized it was not going to be perfect the entire time. However, I think they
made a good couple. They seem to be in love or at least starting to fall in
love with each other. They fell in lust before they built their friendship and
now that they were building the friendship I thought their love would be able
to grow. I found it unfortunate
that she could not go to New York with him, but I do not think it bothered him
as much. Now that he had a taste of what it was like to settle down I think what
he really wanted was to be on the road again. The way I see it is if a guy
really wants something, he will make it happen no matter what. If Sal could
absolutely not live without her, he would have made sure she got to New York
also.
Sal quickly moved on from Terry on his
way home. I was kind of disappointed when he made out with a random girl the
whole way to Indianapolis. I guess I was waiting for some big emotional
realization and I thought him falling in love with Terry would be it. On the
other hand he is young and I guess it would be cool to fall for people and get
over them easily and do it over and over all across the country. Even though he’s
home the journey is still not over; it is only the ending of part 1. I hope
part two has more interactions with people and he builds more relationships. I
like to see how different people interact especially in different places in
America at this time. I feel like there is a lot more of Dean to come because
there is such a big emphasis on him but we really haven’t seen a whole lot of
him. I think since the book is so short it would be better to read it quickly
than to spread all these chapters out over a long period of time.
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