Dead End in Norvelt by Gantos Jack

Author:Gantos, Jack [Gantos, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

14

That night my birthday celebration continued. Mom, Dad, and I had cake and ice cream and played Monopoly, which Dad declared was the greatest game ever invented. “It is the American dream in a box,” he said, pleased with his tidy summation.

Mom disagreed. “It teaches you how to ruin other people’s lives without caring,” she countered. She owned the low-rent properties—Baltic and Mediterranean. I owned the railroads, the utilities, and the orange properties. Dad owned the red, yellow, and green properties and had them loaded up with hotels just waiting to bankrupt us out of the game. The rest of the properties were split unevenly among us.

Mom and I teamed up on a handshake and gave each other free rent. Still, it didn’t take long for Dad to own us both. He didn’t gloat, but he grinned and sang one of his favorite songs about hard work. “You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” Then he carefully packed up the game, as if he were packing up the town and getting ready to hit the road before he got older and deeper in debt.

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