"What do you want? Peretti was annoyed. You looking for a bruise? Gazing unhappily down, his fists clenched, Charles explained what had happened in short, mumbled words."
Charles had just found his real father at the bottom of the barrel courtesy of father-thing, Ted. Charles, however, never explains what he saw to his mother except telling her "he's talking to himself." In peril, Charles runs to the aid of Tony Peretti- the neighborhood bully who had also beaten him up of several occasions. Charles' state of mind throughout this episode is unclear. Could he have been in a dream? Or is he just a troubled 8 year-old? His encounters with father-thing, mother-thing, and Charles-thing are obviously preposterous; if they were real, he wouldn't risk the possibility of being beat up by Peretti.
How would you explain the irony in Charles seeking out Peretti for help and not his mother?
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