Freshmen often arrive on campus feeling disconnected from others, especially if this is the first time away from home for an extended period of time and living with strangers.
And then finally he ends up later in Chapter 5:4 and then I'll move on, "you who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have fallen away from grace."
Birds began to chatter. A dozen young people practiced song-and-dance routines for an afternoon rally, like cheerleaders marooned in the Indian forest.
He was a young man who nursed his grief, who loved to be alone and who shut himself off from seeing the real beauty of life. They were complete opposites.