Chapters 5-7

Chapter 5- The doctor comes to check on Matt because he has to. Rosa tells Matt she can kill him if she wants. Rosa brings him food and changes his newspapers everyday without talking to him. One day, she has gardeners remove his bed and bring in sawdust. The doctor doesn't like it at first, but says "the beast" is in good condition. Tom comes to make fun of him. Matt finds a rotten, wormy orange under the sawdust and nails Tom in the face. Tom goes and gets a pea shooter anf starts nailing Matt in the chest with peas. Matt isn't wearing a shirt because Rosa took everything but his pants. Maria goes and gets Celia and brings her to Matt. She promises to get him out.

Chapter 6: Rosa gets Matt up to wash him and gets him nicely dressed. She threatened him that if he said anything about what she had done, she could kill him. El Patron was there to see Matt. Celia tell El Patron of what Rosa was doing to Matt. When El Patron calls for the doctor, her runs in immediatly. The doctor tells El Patron all about what Rosa was doing, even though he was in on it. She scratched the doctor's face and she is escorted away. Matt and El Patron chat until El Patron falls asleep. Maria goes and gets Matt the next day because El Patron is leaving. El Patron tells everyone to be nice to Matt and that he is leaving a bodygaurd to reinforce it. Matt chooses Tam Lin. Everyone ignores Matt an they return inside.

I read 28 pages.

Interesting Quotation:""Bleating won't save you, you good-for-nothing animal."" ~Rosa, Page 39, Line 22~ Rosa can do whatever she wants to Matt because no one can hear him scream. No one is in the rooms even near to him. Rosa could kill him and no one would hear him.

Chapter 7: Tom comes to Celia's apartment and rips up Matt's teddy bear. Matt and Tom start fighting and Tam Lin breaks them up. Matt kicks Maria and Tom out and Tam Lin talks to him. Maria later explains that she has to go school and invites Matt. He acts rude towards her. A teacher comes to Matt and has him color and write the same letters everyday. He finally blows up and yells at her. Tam Lin comforts her and then goes to talk to Matt. When he goes to Matt, he is excited that Matt can talk. Matt tells Tam Lin that Teacher is an eejit, calling her stupid. Tam Lin says that Matt doesn't know what that means and tells him he will take him on a picnic.

I read 9 pages.

Interesting Quotation: ""She was an eejit," announced Matt, using Maria's worst insult."" ~Matt, Page 74, Line 12~ Matt is referring to her as an idiot. He knows she isn't exactly smart when she teaches the same thing over and over again.