Chapter 54

His first reading assignment for the class was The Sneetchesby Dr. Seuss, about these creatures with stars on their tummies who thought they were better than identical creatures who had no stars. At the time I didn’t care about whatever lesson Dr. Seuss attempted to teach. I was entranced by Professor Whit’s voice, his height, his mesmerizing eyes, and the sizable bulge in his pants.

Despite my lust for the teacher, I managed to hang on to the class. Barely. Alteritymeans “otherness,” and Professor Whit said the Seuss book shows that people naturally divide themselves into groups that don’t get along. There’s always “otherness.”