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Quote #10
"In his cell he began to speak with a strange urgency of things few men have seen in a lifetime and his jailers said that his mind had come uncottered by the acts of blood in which he had participated" (22.2).
The kid finally snaps at the end of the book, when he's thrown into a jail cell and forced to sit and think about his life and what he's done. His jailers know what he's been up to, and they assume that his life of violence has finally taken its toll on his sanity.