74 pages • 2 hours read
Wesley KingOCDaniel
Fiction | Novel | Middle GradeA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Important Quotes
“Think of the worst you have ever felt in your whole life—like if you got a bad flu or your dog died or you just got cut from a team you really wanted to be on—and imagine that happens when you take nine steps to the bathroom instead of ten.”
(Chapter 1, Page 9)
Daniel is describing the pain he feels living with OCD anxiety. This has two aspects. First, it is extremely intense and unbearable. Secondly, it is ostensibly irrational, based upon doing things a certain “wrong” number of times.
“It was like she was the only person who had ever actually seen me.”
(Chapter 2, Page 16)
Daniel is referring to Sara, after she speaks to him for the first time. He feels an immediate connection with her, which is seemingly based on the semiconscious sense that she knows something about what makes him different.
“He had turned it on, and he had done something terrible.”
(Chapter 2, Page 23)
In the opening of Daniel’s story, fictional Daniel flicked a switch on a computer in the attic and wiped out the human race. This is a metaphor for Daniel’s OCD anxiety, and the fear that terrible things will happen if he doesn’t “fix” certain things.
