Marcelo in the Real World pgs. 201-312

Jasmine invites Marcelo to go to Vermont with her, so he can clear his mind. He meets Jasmine’s father, who has dementia. He, at first, thinks it Jasmine’s late brother, and eventually realizes it’s her friend. One night when he’s visiting the neighbors come over. Jonah, the neighbor boy close to Jasmine’s age, wants to have a “heart to heart” with Marcelo. He basically tells Marcelo that he’s in love with Jasmine, but knows they won’t have anything. He thinks Jasmine is in love with Marcelo, this stupefies Marcelo to think that Jasmine likes him. Jasmine and he go camping, and take her dad’s stuff to his ice-fishing shack. They go canoeing and Marcelo thinks a lot about all the things involving Ixtel. Marcelo sleeps next to Jasmine that night, and he gets the “butterflies in your stomach” feeling, which he’s never had before. When Marcelo gets back he tells Wendall he won’t help him lure Jasmine to his boat to have sex with him. So, to be rude, Wendall gives Marcelo a note that Jasmine wrote her father. It suggests in the note that Marcelo’s father and Jasmine had sex in his office. Marcelo also rats out the window shield company for what they did to Ixtel. This caused the law office a lot of money, and Marcelo to get fired. Because he was fired he’ll have to go to Oak Ridge high in the fall, instead of attending Paterson again. At this point Marcelo is completely lost, he lost his ability to remember, and have IM’s. He also can’t remember the verses and where they are in the bible. He decides to give his father the note, and talks to Jasmine about it. Jasmine tells him it was just a kiss, and explains herself. He then tells Jasmine he wants to move out to Vermont. He can go to nursing school, and then help kids with autism work with horses.  He said he’d also help Jasmine’s father work on his farm. Marcelo then goes to visit Ixtel. Ixtel tells Marcelo her story, how she was living on the streets, sold her body, and did drugs. She then thanked him, and told him how she couldn’t express how thankful she was for the thing she had done for him. At the end of the book I can sense a feeling of peace inside Marcelo.