That Change

I was previously studying Macroeconomics and I couldn't help but notice how Brent's recovery and confort reflected on the Law of Demand. We have to variables, price and quantity demanded. In Brent's place we have recovery and confort. Law of Demand states that as price rises, quantity demand falls and vise versa. It seems to be the same for Brent, as recovery rises his confort falls. I just had to laugh at that. It seems strange how Brent's confort decreases even though he is making great progress with his recovery. There might be factors such as the change from the Children's Hospital to the duPont Institute. It might be he is more self-conscious of his actions and appearance. "At the Children's, I got really used to people seeing me naked, I didn't care who it was, Tina, Lisa, Barbara, even Reggie and Calvin, but here I feel a little self-conscious."(p. 150) Changing the way Brent feels at the moment, the choice of words and tone seem to have too.

Runyon has inserted much more regretful tone. Even before his transfer from the Children's Hospital, Brent had started to reflect upon his actions and thus changing the author's tone. Description of his sorrow and his anger with himself are all examples of how Runyon expresses regret into the story. “Someone who could jump into your body just when you were about to make the biggest mistake of your life and keep you from doing it. That would be great. That would be amazing. I wish that was true.” (p. 149)

I wonder if Runyon will change the tone at the end of the book. Until then I'm going to take a closer look at Brent's recovery and confort and see if that changes too. Lets see if he can set aside that Law of Demand that is currently holding him back.