How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Jim stopped.
"You wouldn't let me come alone. You're always going to be around, aren't you, Will? To protect me?"
"Look who needs protection." Will laughed and then did not laugh again, for Jim was looking at him, the last wild light dying in his mouth and caught in the thin hollows of his nostrils and in his suddenly deep-set eyes.
"You'll always be with me, huh, Will?"
Jim simply breathed warm upon him and his blood stirred with the old, the familiar answers: yes, yes, you know it, yes, yes. (16.22-16.26)
What is the source of Will's such steadfast loyalty?
Quote #5
Jim, Will thought, we're still pals, smell things nobody else smells, hear things no one else hears, got the same blood, run the same way. Now, this first time ever, you're sneaking out! Ditching me! (21.27)
Look at how the events of this novel significantly alter the relationship between the two boys. Their friendship is not the same at the end of the novel as it was at the beginning.
Quote #6
"Why," protested [Jim], "I wouldn't leave you, Will. We'd be together."
"Together? You two feet taller and going around feeling your leg-and-arm-bones? You looking down at me, Jim, and what'd we talk about, me with my pockets full of kite-string and marbles and frog-eyes, and you with clean nice and empty pockets and making fun, is that what we'd talk, and you able to run faster and ditch me –"
"I'd never ditch you, Will." (26.30-26.32)
Doesn't he, though, at the end of the novel, when he climbs on to the carousel? Jim "ditches" Will in more ways than one.