Ari falls asleep, and when he wakes up, Dante is gone along with his drawing of Ari, but there is a drawing of Ari’s rocking chair that he left behind. Dante gives Ari a book of poems so he can read while Dante sketches him with charcoal on his drawing pad.
While he is bedridden, Dante comes to keep him company. That’s when Ari (Aristotle) meets Dante, and also when, for Ari, “Dante bec one more mystery in a universe full of mysteries” (19). And on that hottest day of summer, he decides he will go to the pool to spend his time. Even though she isn’t wrong, Ari still resents her for saying it. It starts one summer (for some reason, things always start for Ari in the summer) when Ari’s mother is at him again about how “he doesn’t have any friends”. It is Ari’s favorite thing to do – to drive out to the desert at night in his truck so he can watch the stars. “Do you think we’ll ever discover all the secrets of the universe?” (231)Īri asks this as he and his friends, Susie and Gina, sit in the bed of his truck and look up at all the stars. “from what we cannot hold the stars are made”:Īristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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