![]() ![]() A policeman brings him back, and his mother once again picks him up. There, he makes more friends, but he is beaten and dragged across a splintered wooden floor by a nun and runs away. ![]() Jennings is held back from school for all his time in the home, and his mother gets sick, prompting his return to another children’s home. Jennings’ family is destitute, and this puts a great strain on their family unity. He is lent out to a severely abusive family at one point, where he is beaten and starved, before he makes it back to the home. ![]() At the home, Jennings experiences abuse and a precarious environment that discourages friendship, yet through his compassion he befriends children named Mark and Stacy. The main narrative begins with Jennings’ mother dropping him off at a children’s home she tells him she will be right back. The book opens at the zoo, where a grown Jennings takes care of his three children and remembers how the zoo was once a refuge for him. ![]()
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