Summary

=**Summary**=

There are two main characters Bet and her son Arnold. The book starts off with Bet waking up her son and dressing him up. She tells him that they are going to go out on a trip and Arnold gets excited. You see, Arnold is mentally handicapped. They leave the apartment homes they live in and say goodbye to their neighbor Mrs.Pucket who was him babysitter for so long. had peanutbutter cookies she hoped thatt Arnold would a least gave her a sign or hug a or even take the cookies, but Arnold eas too excited he just ran straight to the front door. Her mom had to take the cookies gives .They head downstairs and made their way to the train station where they boarded a train. Arnold had never in his 9 year life been on a train, so he was curious and his mental problem made it worse because he would have to be entertained by Bet. Bet gives Arnold a piece of gum to keep in busy she had to be carfull beacuse he would sometimes swollow it and she knew that this was bad for him. When they leave the train they get on a taxi. They go to the hospital callled Perkins State Hospital. When they are sitting in the cab Bet asks the driver to wait for that she would only take a while and she kept on reminder him to wait for as she would not trust him. When she goes to the hospital she talks to a nurse. They put Arnold in a room and leave him shut in there while Bet turns to leave, and she hears him scream one loud scream. She leaves to the taxi, tells the driver she has fifteen minutes to go back to the station with tears running down her face the driver hurry and gets to the station. In the station she tries to buy a ticket but te would sell it to her because the train had left. She had to wait for twenty minutes. During the wait she saw a man dressed up nice with a brief case as she looked more man were coming. The mayor was giving a speech about the railway station bet felt like the play was for her and since that day the world was going to be like that just something in the stage for to sit back and watch.