I think what Machado is trying to do here is use the Biblical story of Genesis to point out what she is trying to do with this book. She's trying to put her experience of domestic abuse in a language no one has put it in before. Especially when domestic abuse in gay relationships is not talked about anywhere. It must be difficult for her to put her story into a language that it is never put into as a story written in different genres. The "fuzzy thing" is something unknown to Adam and it seems like it can be compared to the relationship Machado is writing about in her book since domestic abuse is something with not much attention since queer relationships are still a thing frowned upon by many people today.

This part of this chapter perhaps made me the most uncomfortable. Seeing a parent make all the excuses in the world for an unstable and abusive family member is saddening and makes it so that a person might grow up thinking it's normal and have no idea how to handle someone like that in the future when they are confronted with the situation again. Machado's aunt may have had her own issues that affected her deeply, but taking that and putting it onto another child is deeply frustrating and putting on top of that the parents' inability to speak up and defend someone who is incapable of defending themselves.

Yunior's dedication to some sort of exercise shows that he is very concerned with his own self improvement. He uses Yoga, biking and running as ways to distract himself from his destructive ways to the point of near torture as he keeps getting injured from his exercises but he continues to search for some sort of escape from having to directly confront his issues because he feels like he can't handle it if he had no other option.

After nearly an entire chapter of having a fear of the world ending as a result of a nuclear fallout all of sudden he now realizes that he has an entire life ahead of him. His obsession with post apocalyptic movies and thoughts had me curious about what state of mind Yunior was in throughout the story. Was it morbid curiosity of what such a world would look like? Or was he so lost in the world that any way out seemed a good plan? This chapter really focused on Yunior much more than any others in part because of the second person perspective that shifted focus away from other characters. From this perspective we can see that Yunior feels that the world around him is moving on without him. Miss Lora getting her PhD, and his actual girlfriend going to college where he might never see her again. Perhaps the realization that now the world won't end is him realizing that nothing will 'save' him from having to live out his full life.