The significance of character development is noticeable throughout the entire book. You are learning how Fleury coped with his pain, whether it was with alcohol, drugs or plain out hiding it. You learn that he goes out drinking every night but it’s not because he likes to be drunk it's because it helps take the sexual abuse pain away from Graham and the parent problems he had when he was living at home. The drugs do the same but make him feel a lot better. While the alcohol and drugs hide the mental pain he deals with physical pain by just ignoring it which he gets by with but some things he shouldn’t hide like his stomach cramps which were actually symptoms of Crohn’s Disease (page 114-115) and how he tore his knee part and hid it (page 91-94). Hiding these things is bad in my opinion because if you don’t let something like your knee heal it is only going to get worst and worst and take longer to heal. That being said if you hide something like stomach cramps for all he knows it could have been cancer and if he would’ve pushed it aside it may have been too late to survive. If you were in the NHL or another big national sport would you have hidden pains and injuries so you could continue playing?
~BW
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