Rant #6

As i continued to read Rant, the book got very different.  Rant moves to the city with only a suitcase full of old coins he found.  As he wanders the city, a girl named Echo Lawrence picks him up in a car and he is suddenly thrown into a underground game.  The goal of the game is to bump other cars in the bumper.  During his time playing the game with Echo, he begins to like her.  In effort to woe her, he decides to buy her a car by cashing in his old coins.

"Todd Rutz (Coin Dealer): The deal ended up, i paid the kid fifteen thousand out of petty cash. . . Fifteen grand for the 1933 gold twenty, the 1933 gold ten, and the 1879 four-dollar piece. . . My point being, just that 1933 gold Saint Gaudens Double Eagle, that's an eight-million-dollar coin."

This passage from the book shows how people cannot be trusted, and that the nature of man is evil.  I believe this is one of the thematic ideas that Chuck was looking for when he wrote the book because it also reoccurs in the book many times.  Like when Echo's so called best friend tries to scare Rant away from her.