Lev - Janie

When Lev, Connor, and Risa are at the high school (the last place they are all together before the Graveyard), Lev leaves to tell on them.

"This is how he always imagined high school - a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids. He had never worried about it because he had always known he would never have to go. In fact, he only had to worry about getting partway through eighth grade" (77).

This would be incredibly stupefying. Lev has been so sure his entire life that he wouldn't have to worry about anything after eighth grade, but then he isn't tithed. He has to reconstruct his entire outlook on life and it must be frustrating to do all of this altering. His brain was previously set at his "Lev-as-a-whole" person being taken apart at a certain point. He was ready for it. But now that it's not going to happen, he has to adjust his mentality.