“but I didn’t go to a hotel, I had to watch my money now, and instead I just hauled my pack to my back and walked straight for the railroad yards to stretch my bag out somewhere behind the tracks. It was then that, that night, that I realized the dream that had made me want to buy the pack…. the most beautiful sleep of my life” (153)
Here Ray is in El Paso and doesn’t want to spend more money because he spent the money on the bus. He got the backpack so he doesn’t have to relay on staying places and can go where ever and sleep where ever and be free and not worry about it.. It is this night that he final realizes the power of this and freedom giving him the best sleep ever.
“In the morning I had to get the show on the road or never get to my protective shack in California.. “since it’s a dream already ended, then I’m already on California, then I’ve already decided to rest under that tree at noon.” (157-158)
Ray is still in El Paso and he is wishing he was already in California at Japhy’s shack where he feels comfortable. California has become his base and home, not where he is really from. He knows it well and find comfort there. With his tree and the shack. Neither of witch provide any physical protection but he calls them protective because he knows them and loves them and finds some routine and structure in them
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