During the winter session, Brinkers efficiency and control represent a world that is falling from grace. Firstly, when Brinker’s efficiency leads him to taking Gene to the Butt Room, the reader is given a whole new scandalous perspective of the students. The reader has a different perspective regarding the students depending on what settings they are in. Consequently, In class they were unenthusiastic students, outside they were kids playing, but in the Butt Room they turned into criminals in a dungeon: “Yes yes, to the dungeon with you’ … in the Butt Room we looked, very strongly, like criminals” Knowles, 80). When Gene was is pushed into the Butt Room by Brinker, it signifies Brinker bringing Gene into a whole new world that was lurking