As the boys eat early, Night Chatterer talks for the first time warning everyone of a strange event. ‘ ‘‘Wa-wa-water!’’ Night Chatterer screams in a high-pitched voice, pointing at the back door. This is the first time he has talked. I stare at him and then at the water seeping from under the door. It is creeping into the room slowly, but if the rain continues like this, it could cover the entire floor.’ (Sheth, 175). It is clear Night Chatterer is scared of the beating, or maybe because water is getting in the factory. Gopal gives the idea of putting all the frames together, but of course, GC will doubt that. ‘ ‘‘Just because you want to?’’ ’. (Sheth, 175). After that, all the boys put the boxes of picture frames upstairs with teamwork. Well, everyone except GC. The hope of everyone working together vanishes, hope vs despair, and GC later takes the credit for having the idea. I predict that later GC will be kind, for if everyone is working together besides GC he will be left out. He likes to be living in the factory, but deep down inside he might have wanted to leave this awful place a long time ago. The exposition(tiny information at the beginning of stories) in the beginning of the plot would be Gopal’s family having no money to return a debt and no food and needing to move to Mumbai. Then the rising action would be Gopal believing in a stranger, and being drugged and taken to a strange place. The climax of the story is where Gopal is living in a horrible, rectangular room where he is hurt the first two days and 5 other boys are being forced to work for no money, they are beaten up a lot, and no hopes of escaping. Also the climaxes are also the boys being hurt badly, repeated times. The falling action later on in the book will be Scar sending Gopal to get some things for him and Gopal leaving a note of help. The denouement, or the end of the problem is that 3 men come rescue the boys and Scar goes to jail, and Gopal is taken to see his family, and especially a certain someone special.
Chapter 17:
Gopal is dreaming. Dreams are little compared to different realities, or dreams vs reality. For Gopal, his dream is he is in Jama’s house and water is entering the house. Gopal distracts Naren and Sita, his brother and sister, by handing cards for them to play. While the twins are playing, Aai and Gopal get to work by getting buckets, filling them with the water spilled on the floor and dumping them outside through the window, repeatedly, but the water stays the same level. After stopping dumping water, Gopal notices the rain is gone, and the best part is that the water is not coming in anymore. As Aai and Gopal see a perfect aluminum pan floating in the water, Aai says to Gopal: ‘ ‘‘Let’s not upset them,’’ ’(Sheth, 182) and she means the twins. Gopal has a terrible thought that if Naren and Sita find out a pan and other different objects are floating in the water, they would be likely to go treasure-hunting, and treasure-hunting might make them drown in knee-high water. Aai notices Gopal shiver with the thought and asks if he is cold (Sheth, 183). Before saying anything Gopal wakes up still shivering. That is when he notices the real life he has right now is glue’s smell, the jute bag, and mosquito bites. We, readers, notice that Gopal changed by being so much time in the frame ‘factory’ that he isn’t feeling as bad and sad as before as the thought of his family comes to mind. My prediction is that Gopal will share more stories with the boys. The beginning of the plot would be that first, there is rain, and it keeps rising. Then the water is entering Jama’s home, and Aai and Gopal cannot get water from the floor and dump it out. There, the water cannot be stopped and the same amount of water keeps coming in. But happily, the rain is gone and water is not entering the house anymore. The chapter ends with Gopal realizing he woke up and not being able to talk to Aai. Then questions swirl his head like trees waving their branches as a strong wind passes by.

In chapter 17, the sweatshop is filled with water and Gopal has a memory-dream of Aai,Sita,and Naren But then wakes up in the sweatshop. Chapter 16 might have a connection to a future event as it shows thick fingers protecting night chatterer.Thick fingers also starts changing personalities and is very helpful and protective but GC showed us his true colors. A connection to the theme of the book is in gopal's dream as it foreshadows what is happening in the real world.

After Gopal realizes that trying to take the leader position would bring GC and thick fingers against him, Gopal has an idea to escape, but he needs to steal Scar’s pencil. When the boys go down to eat Dimpled chin asks Gopal if they can eat, showing that DimpledChin is on Gopal’s side and Gopal is rising in the ‘hierarchy’ amongst the boys. Another fact to prove my assumption is when Rocking Boy stands up for Gopal and GC gets angry and beats him, and when Gopal tries to help him,he slaps Gopal across the face. GC has gotten angry because of people standing on Gopal's side. Thick Fingers pushes GC away making the boys' connection weaker. Gopal  saves the frames from getting wet so he does not get a beating. Night chatterer is scared and reveals his name which could mean that also the others will reveal their name. Gopal has a dream of being home and then when it turns out to be fake he loses hope and doubts himself which relates to the theme Hope vs. Despair.