Seventh Meeting: Subway Tracks

My analysis for this meeting was kind of weak, I realized. However, this is sort of justifiable, seeing as what Chris did for the majority of the reading was groaning and jumping into active subway tracks to find his pet rat. Because of this lack of meaning, our discussion was not very deep. However, since we had a shorter class time due to the vocabulary test, our discussion stayed on the book the entire time.
I was very passionate about Chris' behavior during the meeting, however. One must wonder what they taught in his school if they didn't include anything about not jumping onto active subway tracks. I found this point in the story completely idiotic, as Chris knew that the subway train would be coming, and that if he jumped onto the tracks, he would get run over. However, because his pet rat ran onto the tracks, he decided to get it and made me loathe him a bit more. Liana answered that he just couldn't see anything but getting Toby back. Still, though, my respect and empathy for the character has dropped.