In "Admiral of the Swiss Navy" written by Sam Lipsyte, there is a narrator who is the kind of boy many of us have known at one time in our life. He is confused, arrogant, showy, put in situations where he must decide what the right thing to do is, and always worried about what the other kids think of him. He is attending a summer camp near a lake in Canada and rooms with an unpopular obese kid named Van Wort. Yes, Van Wort, you can only guess that a boy with this name gets besieged by the other camp boys. The narrator finds himself involved in some of these acts of violence towards Van Wort. The narrator then reaches into his conscience and finds himself in a moral quandary, and decides to start helping Van Wort a little at a time, but is too late. Van Wort felt instigated by those who tortured him, to finally end the pain he suffered and to kill himself in front of all the other kids at camp. The narrator gets involved in some situations that make him look like a bad kid, but the......

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Title: Admiral Of The Swiss Navy
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