Summary Chapter 2: Why Chicken Means So Much to Me

In Chapter 2 the narrator tells us that Junior´s family is absolutely poor. Junior´s best four-legged friend is his dog Oscar. But the dog gets sick and they don’t have enough money to buy the medicine for Oscar. So Junior´s dad decides to shoot the dog because it´s cheaper than the medicine. Junior blames his parents, but then he realizes that they are poor as well and weren´t able to realize their dreams. Because Junior loves to express his feelings by drawing cartoons, he draws one of his parents depicting how they would look like if they had realized their dreams.