It took a while for me to understand why the entries from the doctor's journal were in the book, and it did help me to understand why some things were going on.
Leonard had read the journal and in a strange way felt guilty when he heard Travis' name. Travis and Leonard have in common Travis wanting to learn and needing a father figure and Leonard's need to teach and care about something.
Carlton Toomey was a simple man, he wanted money and power and a easy way to get them. I don't think there was anything sympathetic about him.
Travis has been told by his father and teachers that he will be in touble sooner or later, so he is headed that way if not at best he will be a farmer like his father.
Leonard should have fought the charges against him. Leonard seems to suffer from depression and makes a comment that his mother had had "dark days", and I did find him sympathetic, because in the end he did the only thing he could think of to save himseld, Travis, and Dena.
Dean had given up by the time she went with the Toomeys, and in her mind she was not worth anything.
This book was good it made you think of the motives behind peoples thinking and in the end there can be redemption.
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