In chapter 21, Saul begins by saying, “St. Jerome’s was hell on earth” (44). Choose a passage from chapter 21 (as short as a sentence or as long as a paragraph) that YOU feel illustrates how it has been "hell on earth" for Saul and the children. -

In the mornings, after the priests had walked through the dorms ringing cowbells to scare us awake, we were marched to the latrines. We stood in lines waiting our turn at the toilets—a dozen of them for a hundred and twenty boys. Some of us soiled our pants during the wait, because we were strapped if we left our beds at night. We had half an hour to wash, make our beds and prepare ourselves for the march to chapel. There we sat dully in our seats while Father Quinney said a mass in Latin. At the end he pronounced the greatness of the Catholic god. ch 21