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Like Eggers, Toph watches his parents die within five weeks of one another. At first, Toph is quiet and apprehensive when he, Eggers, and Beth move to California. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Chapter 1 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 24 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 2 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 50 Cite this Quote. Page Number and Citation : 57 Cite this Quote.
Chapter 3 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 88 Cite this Quote. They are scared. They are jealous. We are pathetic. We are stars. We are unusual and tragic and alive. Page Number and Citation : 96 Cite this Quote. Chapter 4 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Chapter 5 Quotes. The possibilities snap through my head like pedophilia flashcards—handcuffs, floorboards, clown suits, leather, videotape, duct tape, knives, bathtubs, refrigerators— Toph will never wake up.
Chapter 9 Quotes. Chapter 11 Quotes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Preface to This Edition. Eggers thanks the people who have allowed him to write about them, especially Beth and Toph. Chapter 1. He grasps her nose, squeezing so hard he hurts her. When he comes back upstairs, he takes the plastic receptacle Eggers and Toph will finish third grade while he himself drops classes.
Chapter 2. Eggers and Toph speed along Highway 1 in California, winding along the coast and listening to loud music Their lease Toph joins a Little League baseball team, so Eggers spends many of his afternoons sitting on Eggers explains that he, Beth, and Toph left Chicago quickly, selling almost everything in the house. Now, everyone living in the sublet Chapter 3. The summer ends and Eggers tries to find a new place to live with Toph.
This is harder than he expected, because real estate agents are quick to judge him Toph and Eggers repaint the house, making each room a different color. Beth—who is in her first year of law school—picks Toph up every day and brings him to her apartment until Eggers can retrieve him, at Eggers curses, blaming Toph Eggers considers telling her something outrageous just Chapter 4. This has made it hard for him to date, though even when Toph gets out of school on Fridays at noon, so Eggers takes work off to spend Toph says that Eggers is driven by anger, which is perhaps the result of having grown Chapter 5.
In his head, he runs through all the signs that Eggers thinks about being held accountable for leaving Toph with a murder. As such, Eggers tries to get Since then, John has been depressed. Now, in the bar, he asks Eggers how Toph is doing. When Eggers returns from the bathroom, another friend approaches him and asks about Toph. Inside, though, he finds Toph asleep on the couch. After he sends Stephen home, Eggers Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Eggers goes to the park with Toph , who is now eleven.
They play Frisbee for a while, attracting attention with their fancy Chapter 8. One evening, Eggers and Toph walk by a restaurant where, they discover, Bill Clinton is eating. Cold fusion affects reptiles, agriculture, the molecules we use to butter our toast, and television.
The Eggers boys are at it again—Dave and Toph, launching their latest assault on scientific reason and the American giggle box. You know, nights at camp, Dave in an eagle-scout uniform, Toph in the top bunk, both boys laughing all night, fit to bust, blurting out sleepy, goofy thoughts:. Dave: Okay, so what things are made immediately better with cold fusion? Toph: Reggae music. Interracial dating. Fruit bats…. But they never had that all-American childhood.
Instead, they lost both to cancer in a day period, leaving Dave—in his early 20s, with deep misgivings and more than a few sobering mistakes—to don a superhero costume De Facto Dad! Turns out the brothers raised one another, and their experience is recounted in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , the pseudo-memoir that made Dave Eggers famous and, yes, the de facto voice of a generation of young writers. So how, exactly, do the Eggers create these wildly comic, Time-Life send-up, pseudo-science reference books?
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