In chapter 8, Dave and Marlon are back to being friends but their relationship has changed between them. They are not as close as they used to be and chat less. I believe that both boys do want to talk to each other and feel the same way, but events that have happned keep them apart. In the chapter Dave and Marlon attend a audition for a play. Dave and Marlon meet Meghan, who Marlon falls in love with. Meghan is jewish like Dave is, and she says the Dave is not a real Jew. I thought this was the most intresting part of the chapter as it revealed alot about Dave. Although Dave does not like being a Jew, he is offended when someone calls him out for not being someone that he is supposed to be. This brings Dave to think about who he is, and about him converting to christianity.
In chapter 9, things start off with Marlon coming late and absent at school. The book has been building this weird suspision around Marlon but yet reveals anything about what happens in Marlon’s personal life. Chapter 9 goes more in depth between the relationship of Dave and his dad. They go on a trip to a holocaust mesuem during Dave’s one week off. I believe that Dave’s dad is trying to show him more about Jewish heritage hoping that Dave will be more understanding of his own heritage. Then back at the school a fight brakes out, in which one kid stabs the other using a knife. This is an eye opener for Dave realising the power of the switch knife that he wanted the get and the postion that the knife would have led him to. Outside the school a news channel is able to get some words out of Dave. Dave’s parents watch him on t.v and are hurt by the things that he said on t.v, which was him saying that he too has also been threatened by someone with a knife. The chapter then moves back to Dave and his dad. They are at a baseball stadium in where his dad starts doing the wave. I believe this part had alot of meaning to Dave, showing him how great his dad is and maybe changing his perspective of what is possible in the world around him.