Douglas Hanson is a seventeen year old boy who gets picked on constantly and is a nerd. His best friend Andy Morrow is completely the opposite. His outgoing, part of the student council, star football player, and is involved with the theater. He is constantly building very elaborate trains and builds a mini town called Madham. Through out the book they make reference to an incident that happened in Tuttle place. Doug's parents take action by taking him to the psychiatrist, since he has issues at school and even threaten a bomb in school and everyone had be evacuated. They also realized he is not taking his medication. Eventually the psychiatrist got him talk about the incident in Tuttle's place. He admitted that both Andy and him set the place on fire and consequently, Andy died in that fire. That's why he reacted differently around fire. His constant battle with his inner demons was not longer invisible. After he gets home, he sets his mini town on fire and its unsure if he died or is in a psychiatric ward.
The theme in this book is friendship because Andy and Douglas are friend even though they don't have anything in common. Doug story was very sad when he realized that his friend was dead and he would still be talking to him.
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