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Jill bathed Smith to get ready to leave again,, when the police knocked at the door. They pulled guns on both Jill and Smith, however Smith touched one and then the cop disappeared, he did this with the other cop as well.

Jill managed to sneak Smith out of the hospital, by disguising him as a nurse, now they are at Ben's apartment and Jill is helping Smith understand that even though grass is alive, walking on it is ok.

It's explaining how Ben was able to get an interview with Smith, no one originally knowing he was able to get one, not even Jill.

After finding out the man on the news was a fake, Jill and Ben devise a plan on how they can get Smith out of the "prison" he's in.

Jill and Ben went out to eat in Maryland, and watched the news as supposedly Smith came on to be interviewed.

Jill started to set up a listening device for Ben in the hospital, so he could listen to what happen's in Smith's room without anyone knowing.

Jill and Ben are eating dinner at Ben's apartment, and they talk about Smith. Saying how it makes no sense that he has to be guarded and kept away from others, but also how he is now sole heir to all his ancestries crew belongings.

The crew is slowly teaching Smith how to do things. Things like speak English, eat, stand, walk, and use the bathroom. However it's challenging because he keeps falling into a coma-like sleep.

The ship lost all contact to earth, so a rescue mission was sent up. After arriving years later they only found 1 survivor, living on Mars. They brought him back to earth and his body immediately had trouble adapting to the different gravity, as they talk about how he has never come in contact with any humans until now.

It's explaining the crew and circumstances that were needed for the mission, in order to find out if a colony could be successful.

Holden was planning to say goodbye to Phoebe now, because he was planning to leave and go way out west. Instead he ended up having such a good time with her the park, he stayed home.

Holden arrived at Mr.Antolini's, and he gave Holden some good life advice before going to bed. Then late at night he bursts awake to Mr.Antolini patting his head, so he rushes out of the place and goes to the train station.

He sneaked in to see Phoebe for a while, before he had to sneak out as they're parents got home. He's now just arriving at one of his old teacher's houses to stay the night, as the teacher is retired and now friends with him.

He's sneaking into his house to talk to Phoebe, and then go right back out to not get caught home early.

He went to the bar to hang out with his friend Luce, but Luce left early so he stayed at the bar getting drunk,

He made Sally upset by saying she's a pain, and she got real sad and left him alone at the ice skating rink.

He met with Sally and went to a show with her, and now they're gonna go ice skating.

Holden got beaten a bit by a guy, for owing someone else 5 bucks. So he lazed around for a while, and even thought about suicide.

He's in New York on his own, and keeps going to different clubs to occupy himself. But he keeps feeling down and eventually returns to his hotel.

He left Pencey the same night that he got in a fight, and took a train straight to NYC. He met Ernest's mother on the train, and made good conversation with her before getting off the train.

Holden and Stradlater got into a fight, not even about something big. But it leading to Stradlater punching Holden hard in the face, causing him to bleed all over.

He talked with Stradlater for a while about the date he had with a girl he used to know, Jane. Then he went out with 2 other friends for a few hours, before coming home and writing a paper for Stradlater that he agreed to do.

Finished Book. It tells a summary-type version of the story of his life, explaining what he did over the years in 2 pages.

The police tried to uncover who exactly killed Malcolm. Even though they had multiple suspects, it's still a mystery who hired the attackers to kill him and which one actually did it.

Malcom's house was nearly burnt down due to an attack, and because of all the threats he would keep a loaded machine gun ready in his hotel room. Then as he was giving a speech there was an attack, leading to him being assassinated.

Malcolm fully left the Nation of Islam, and put together his own group called the Afro-Americans. He got many death threats for this, as many thought it went against what he was originally fighting for.

Today I read about how Malcolm pilgrimaged to Cairo to join the Islamic religion fully.

I read about how Malcolm disagreed with the march on Washington, by MLK Jr., as he thought the whole non-violent protest wasn't gonna change anything. Especially since some of the leaders in it were white.