The book has sort of gone off the topic of Nathaniel's life and moved towards loading you with information about the "cause". In this case the cause being mentally ill people living in poverty on the streets of Los Angeles, Skid Row in particular. These chapters were very long and touched on may things as well as keeping a steady flow of information about what is going on with Nathaniel, it was confusing to having so much thrown at you when your reading. Steve finally got Nathaniel to stop sleeping on the streets as much, by getting people from Lamp (center for the mentally ill) so he can have a bed and even shower. However the main topic of these chapters which made them so long was Nathaniel’s first visit to the Disney Hall, to which he had made a small stage on the streets when Steve found him that was called “Little Disney Hall”. He had always wanted to go there and when he did Steve noticed that Nathaniel could socialize with anyone in the building about music, as if he has been one of them and never on the streets.
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