In spite of the quality of CSM’s artwork, he is thrown out of the New School because of his greasy hands. This, of course, is a pretext, the real reason being that the school no longer offers a scholarship due to his poor academic results. After an intensive search, CSM’s mother finally finds a public school (The Traphagen), not too far from where they live in Brooklyn, which means no more subway trips and no more peanuts.
Thus begins a very dark period in CSM’s life, marked by nagging hunger and the loss of his mother, who dies of malnutrition and what appears to be tuberculosis.
CSM is left with his father who still speaks no English except the names of
the horses he bets on. Actually, his father is good enough at this game to amass a small fortune ($500) which he employs to get out, with his son, of Brooklyn and the hard life of the east coast. The next stop is Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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