Charles Wickramsinghe is a Sri Lankan delegate traveling by plane from Sri Lanka to America to attend the WTO meeting, and he meets an actress on board and they share perspectives, realizing that they might not be so different after all.
Victor goes into lock-down but soon grows afraid as the police start threatening to deploy tear gas and then do so. Then he remembers his father burning all his books when he was 16, prompting him to run away, which makes him change his mind and volunteer for lock-down. King invites Victor to meet the other protesters and to participate in lock-down but he is reluctant to do so. John Henry remembers the lone protester who did not last long at a protest and remembers the importance of always protesting as part of a community.
It all culminated in a dramatic event after which she pledged to be nonviolent from now on and she de-escalates the situation with Victor and the cop, but is told by Bishop to start clearing the intersection. King reminisces about her own life story, having gotten hooked on protesting at 19 and being in love with a boy, then drifting around the country attending more protests and growing more militant and angry. Ju remembers being deployed during the LA riots of '92 and concludes that sometimes looking away is part of the job too. A girl called King, a seasoned protester, sees this and decides to intervene in a friendly and non-confrontational way. Victor starts to reminisce about his time spent traveling and keeps trying to sell weed until he is reported to a cop, who tries to seize his bag. Chief Bishop starts to wonder about his son, Victor, who ran away three years ago, but is soon distracted when he is ordered to clear the intersection. Officers Park and Ju have a woman approach them offering coffee and Park acts in a hostile manner, threatening her with a baton. John Henry surveys the crowd, a former preacher he sees the whole thing in religious terms, the chanting being like prayer and the protest being a "new American religion" (location 220). He asks random people and they all reject his offer, and one girl tells him that this is not a protest but a "direct action" (location 490). He goes to join in so that he can sell some weed and buy a plane ticket to somewhere else. Victor, a young homeless man, is lighting a joint camped out in an underpass when he hears the voices of a protest in the distance. Due to a Kindle version of this book with out page numbers being used, page numbers are not cited with quotes throughout this study guide. Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of A Fist. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Yapa, Sunil.
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