How It All Goes Down
- Jack often picks Dolores up from school, but his moods vary wildly day to day.
- One afternoon when Jack doesn't pick her up, she eats lunch with Norma and her greasy boyfriend and decides she doesn't want to be friends with her anymore.
- She and Norma fight, and she runs to Jack's car and rides away with him.
- He puts his fingers in her sock and says that "we're special people" (1.7.33), by which we assume he means "creeper who touches teenage girls' feet."
- He drives her out to a place where a bunch of dogs are kept in pens. "These are the poor f***ers nobody wants" (1.7.95), he says.
- Then he pressures Dolores into kissing him and gives her a porn magazine.
- They get out of the car, and he forces her down near the dog cages and rapes her; when he's done, he kicks her, then he goes to talk to the dogs.
- On the way home, Jack cries, saying "we're awful people" (1.7.156). Wrong pronoun, Jack, wrong pronoun.
- At home, Dolores takes a bath, and doesn't tell Ma or Grandma what happened.
- Rita miscarries, and Dolores believes it happens because of what she and Jack did.
- One morning, she walks across the street to Roberta the tattoo lady and tells her what Jack did to her.
- Roberta walks her home to tell Ma.