- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Back in the present time of the story, Ivan calls the three boys outside to help him with the truck. In the yard, they find that the old pickup is filled with felled trees and stuck deep in the mud. Though the truck does not work well anymore, Ivan is attached to it because it used to belong to his late stepson, Tanker.
At first, he, Ivan, and Freddy toss in their own idioms describing the truck’s old age. The narrator enjoys this kind of playfulness that he is able to share with Freddy’s family, but he is taken aback…