"'You fat moron,' Frank said. 'You aren't good for anything'"
Of course Tub would be the most sympathetic character in this short story because he is constantly getting picked on by his best friends. Nobody really sticks up for him. Despite ridiculeing him through out the story, Frank and Kenny leave him alone in the woods because he can not keep up. In the first half of the book, it is difficult to see why the group is together at all, because none of them seem to like one another. Tub just seems to be taking the worst of it. And later knowledge of his clear self-image issues only adds to the sympathy felt toward him. His name also helps this because, along with meaning that he is over weight, usually when I hear "tub tub" it is about a little kid who has not lost his baby weight. This definitely applies to Tub, because many of those little kids are ridiculed by their friends.
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