Mikey's We Stay Watching The Fire

Words: 238
Pages: 1

“We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there’ll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again. But right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it’s good. It’s a loop with my friends that would be pretty damn good forever”(Ness 317). This paragraph relates to the whole book because all Mikey wanted was to be with his friends and not leave them because of college. He also says that there will be a tomorrow, which is saying that even after all the crazy things that have been happening to him, he’s going to push on and believe in a better tomorrow. Mikey relates the happy feeling of being with his friends to being