chapter 5

holdin gets back from eating and goes to a movie. he ends up not watching the movie just eating and playing pinball. he goes back to the room to write the comp paper and ackley comes back in and holdin has to tell him to just leave so he can get some work done. he finally starts writing about his brothers baseball glove which he used to write poems on so when he got bored in the outfield he could read them. then he said his brother died of leukemia and starts talking about how great his brother was. he said when his brother died he punched all of the windows in the garage out and messed up his hand so bad that he cant make a fist now.
why does holdin write the paper? its not his he shouldnt have to do the work.