“Between Mom and Dad and me, it only took a few minutes to
unload the car, but my unair-conditioned dorm room, although blessedly out of
the sunshine, was only modestly cooler. The room surprised me: I’d pictured
plush carpet, wood-paneled walls, Victorian furniture. Aside from one luxury-a
private bathroom- I got a box. With cinder-block walls coated thick with layers
of white paint and a green-and-white-checkered linoleum floor, the place looked
more like a hospital than the dorm room of my fantasies. A bunk bed of
unfinished wood with vinyl mattresses was pushed against the room’s back
window. The desks and dressers and bookshelves were all attached to the walls
in order to prevent creative floor planning. And no air-conditioning “ (Green, 6).
This is at the beginning of the book, when Miles is just
arriving to the boarding school. He is getting all of his stuff into his room,
and is describing his room. This is just after he leaves from Florida. He walks
into his room, trying to unload his stuff. He is trying to get comfortable with
his new room, and school. He describes what he thought the room would look
like, and what the room actually does look like, too.
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