11/20/09

The mom means her son is fragile because he thinks snakes are scary because the paster said 'if you get bit by one of them in seven days you are going to blow up in to pieces'.

The clues that I get from the texts is in chapter two he had just came from the barn and his mom  said grab a cookie and he thought the warm cookies were at the bottom of the jar and he grabbed a snake a snake and stated running and when he ran two miles he still had the snake in his hand.