A big change occured: he can now understsand, interpret, and evaluate events. Relate it to what Nurse Hilda said.

On April 13th, we learn that he is making progress. This progress would negate the things that Nurse Hilda told him he'd never be able to do.

"Anyway, now I know I'm getting a little smarter every day. I know punctuation, and I can spell good. I like to look up all the hard words in the dictionary and I remember them. And I try to write these progress reports very careful but that's hard to do. I am reading a lot now, and Miss Kinnian says I read very fast. And I even understand a lot of the things I'm reading about, and they stay in my mind. There are times when I can close my eyes and think of a page and it all comes back like a picture."