The Kid is a very interesting book to me, because the story seems to be affected on how his youth was like. Abdul Jones, the main character of the story, is at his mother's birthday in the beginning of the book. A strange woman gives Abdul's mother a present, which has a bomb in it. After this, Abdul grows up in a foster home. While Abdul is in a foster home, his mind and senses seems crazed and unstable. He suddenly will get headaches, his ear will hurt, and Abdul would continuously crave to see his mother again.
Soon throughout, Abdul seems to do things that lead him to trouble, and everything that happens to him had to do with the loss of his mother. Abdul seems to be very amnesia-like. When he would do something mischievous or intimate, he always thinks to himself that he never did it, when he clearly states it earlier. Abdul Jones is a unique and special character, not changing at all through the book, besides growing up.
