"I don't really hate Brinker, I don't really hate him, not any more than anybody else." His swimming eyes cautiuosly explored me. The wind lifted a sail of snow and billowed it past us. "It was only-" he drew in his breath so sharply that it made a whistling sound-"the idea of his face on a woman's body. That's what made me psycho. I don't know. I guess they must be right. I guess I am a psycho. I guess I must be. Did you ever have ideas like that?"
     "No."
     "Would they bother you if you did, if you happened to keep imagining a man's head on a women's body, or if sometimes the arm of a chair turned into a human arm if you looked at it too long, things like that? Would they bother you?"
     I didn't say anything.
     "Maybe everbody imagines things like that when they're away from home, really far away, for the first time."

     The reason I chose this passage is because of it's coming of age scene. I relate this conversation to coming of age becuase Leper is homesick and halucinating. It makes me think of how he is growing up too soon. It shows that he needs to grow up and get over his problems like an adult. He is, however too young for the responsibility, yet still has it, and has to take like an adult.