Pretending

                Now that Dylan’s back in Brooklyn, the reader can see how the relationship between Arthur and Mingus has progressed. Arthur practically worships Mingus, and supports him in everything he does, following him everywhere. Before, Arthur seemed content to be his stuck-up self. Now, he adds “yo” into every sentence at least once, using a lot more slang than he used to. All I can think is that to see him in real life would be humorous, because earlier in the book it was stated that he was clearly white, and now suddenly he’s overdoing his black kid act. Arthur also, in Dylan’s absence, did many of the things in Mingus’s company that Dylan would normally have done, like tagging.

                Dylan doesn’t seem to be too eaten up about this. He’s too excited to take Aeroman to the streets and try flying from building to building like the flying man before him, and fight crime. He lurks the streets of New York looking for crime, but only succeeds in scaring a young woman, who he had been following because he thought her susceptible to crime and worth keeping an eye on, to make sure nothing happened to her. He didn’t seem to realize that her terrified running through alleys was caused by himself following her. He found no crime that night.