Annotate the passage below to show your understanding. Form 10 annotations.




“Elwood had never been much of a crier, but he’d taken it up since the arrest. The tears came at night, when he imagined what Nickel held in store for him. When he heard his grandmother sobbing in her room next door, fussing around, opening and closing things because she didn’t know what to do with her hands. When he tried without success to figure out why his life had bent to this wretched avenue. He knew he couldn’t let the boys see him weep, so he turned over in his bunk and put his pillow over his head and listened to the voices: the jokes and the taunts, the stories of home and distant cronies, the juvenile conjectures about how the world worked and their naive plans to outwit it.
He’d started the day in his old life and ended it here. The pillowcase smelled like vinegar, and in the night the katydids and crickets screeched in waves, soft then loud, back and forth” (54).