How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
With some forty kids of my own age I was now undisputed leader, a situation I must confess I found to my liking. Being somebody after being nobody for so long was a heady experience, but I also found it, on occasion, a bit onerous. Fights had to be settled, bullying stopped, and the small kids set straight when they did things wrong. (11.82)
In this section we get a taste of how isolation doesn't just mean being an outsider. Even when Peekay is the most popular kid in the school, he still feels like he doesn't connect; he's a leader, but not the students' peer. We can feel lonely even if we're surrounded by people, which tells us that loneliness comes from inside, not from outside circumstances
Quote #5
We were, he decided, odd-bods, he a Jew and me with only one name. (16.61)
In the society of the Prince of Wales School, most of the kids come from English-speaking families and have plenty of money and social status; being a Jew meant being not only from another religion, but also from another, not always accepted, culture. Remember, this novel takes place during Hitler's reign, when the Holocaust wasn't just a section in history books—it was real life.