The War between the classes
Chapter X



    
Amy is about to leave for school.
Hideo and Amy have a short conversation via phone. He really worries about his wife Sue who is expecting a baby, but as he has to be in San Francisco that afternoon he asks Amy for taking care of Sue while he is absent.
(Sue is nauseous and crampy)
   
Brian stops Amy in front of school because he wants to see her journal. Even though it´s raining he lets her stand in the rain while he is holding an umbrella. They talk coldly to each other.
p. 84, l. 18: "Your fellow Blues are really pissed off about you. They are out to get you for betraying them."

(Amy was degraded to an orange the day before and that´s why she is treated in an inferior way by Brian)


   
She arrives cold, wet and late in class having troubled about Brian´s words all the time.
Carol, her former friend, tells her with a gleam of satisfaction that she has to sit behind her as an orange.
   

Amy feels unbalanced. She hates her new role as an orange, having to bow so much and taking insults from everyone. She has to be on guard as well.

   

Once again she realises that poverty separates people more than color. She believes that poverty is like a vicious circle.

   

Amy phones Mrs. Tarcher but Adam´s mother seems cold and unfeeling unlike Adam.
Later on Adam drives Amy to Sue who is glad to see her. Hideo is in San Francisco.

Sue knows the importance of her baby for the relationship to Hideo´s and Amy´s Japanese parents and that´s why the worries so much. She believes that she is accepted only with the baby and not without one. "The baby is the only way they will accept me"..."The baby makes all the difference."