Steve decided to visit Julliard in New York to walk the halls which his friend walked thirty years before him. While there he looked into student files to see Nathaniel’s marks, all A’s his first year. However during his second year his marks begin to drop, even failing some classes. His mental illness was affecting him greatly, but playing music was the only time he was sane. He had to play in front of three judges in order to keep his scholarship and even with his illness he managed to keep the scholarship, only to be sent to Belleview in a straight jacket. However the most climatic part of the book so far was in these chapters, when Nathaniel turns on Steve for the first time. Nathaniel threatens Steve telling him “LEAVE NOW, AND DON’T COME BACK OR I’LL KILL YOU!”, also cursing and constantly threatening to kill Steve. This made him really look at everything he’s done for Nathaniel over the past year and a half. So he left him alone for awhile and eventually biked to the tunnel where Nathaniel told him how he couldn’t believe he said those things. This chapter was to me the climax of the book, nothing can beat this.
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