A new character is introduced as a neighbor of Frank's, his name is Mickey Malloy. He is said to be educated on dirty things and his mother goes to insane asylums because her husband spends all of the families money on drikning at the pub. Mickey's mother is constantly worried about wether or not her kids will have food. Frank has his first communion and Mickey tells him that the only good thing about first communion is the money you recieve. However, Frank seems to appreciate the meaning of communion more than just recieving money. As Frank and Mickey become closer friends he finds himself listening to many of Mickey's stories. Many of them are vulgar and Frank feels as though he has sinned because he listens to them. This thought of sin weighs on Frank so heavily that he asks multiple people, including his father, wether or not he should go to confession. Frank decides to go to confession and feels better about it.
One day after his first communion after returning home, Frank regurgitated his communion wafer in his Grandma's backyard. His Grandma insists that Frank go to confession to see what he needs to do to repent for this "sin". The priest tells Frank to just wash it away with water. Because he had to attend confession, Frank missed his collection of money for his first communion. This upsets Frank because he was looking forward to going and spending the money on movies... Instead Frank sneaks into a movie.
The reference to Nora, Mickey's mother, in the first chapter seems to be a little coincidental... maybe even implying some foreshadowing to what will happen to Angela because the two seem so familiar. I like Frank's intentions and the fact that communion has a deeper meaning to him other than just recieving money however it worries me that mickey may have a negative influence on hime which seems to be appearing at the end of the chapter.
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