How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Lurhetta, good-by. Good-by, M.C., the Great. There began to take shape a long, firm kind of mound. The children fed it. M.C. shoveled and Ben packed it. In the immense quiet of Sarah's Mountain late in the day, they formed a wall. And it was rising. (14.235-237)
Even though M.C.'s imagining him and Lurhetta saying bye to each other, M.C.'s basically leaving his old self behind. Instead of the individualist loner, M.C. ends the story in the company of other kids. He needs the help of a community in order to save his home, so what's rising isn't just the wall, but also a new generation of kids, willing to rise up and fight the good fight against things as destructive as strip-mining.