Chapter 4

Jess arrives at the cottage. Her father and Pop are in a discusion about a wheelchair. Pop, with his pighead, doesn't want to sit in such a wheelchair, because he says, that he can walk on his own legs. But Dad wants him to sit in the wheelchair, because it looks painful and hard when Pop walks.
In the end, because of Pops bullishness, Grandpa "wins" the discusion and continues walking with his feets.
Mom and Dad make a walk and Jess and Pop stay at the cottage. Pop plans to continues drawing on his picture "The River Boy" and wants Jess to assist him. Jess assists Pop with bringing him his stuff and stays next to him, if he wants to. Pop doesn't want to just draw on his picture, he wants to that on a place near the river - of course he exactly knows where the right place is. The reason for that is, that the river is a part of the picture he draws.
After a little while gets a bit angry and Jess asks whats wrong. He answers, that he dislikes his picture and isn't happy about what the picture looks like. He wants to start again, but Jess says, that she likes it and that it looks good, so in the end Pop continues drawing. But then, he gets another heartattack ..


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During reading chapter four I thought, that there must be more than a normal relationship between grandpa and granddaughter, between Jess and Pop. Because he trusts her more than any other person. Personally I think, that mom, his daughter, would be the person in who Pop puts his trust. Futhermore Pop wanted Jess to stay next to him, which brings me to the question: why? Not only if he gets mad, because he mostly refuses help because of his pighead.
She must be a kind of inspiration for him, but what does that mean?