The chapter opens with a clanging of the bell in the juvenile hall. It's been five years since the last time the bell was rung, and it's about to go off again. The narrator tells us that the bell has been clanging for five years now, and that the time has come for the "vengeance generation" to get its revenge on the "bastard generation." The narrator says that the bastard generation needs to "make its move" and that they need to "lit the bas now." He says that they'll all "gath er" to "gether" until then, when the "virtuous generation" will be able to "lill the bas" and make it even more vicious. One of the big four gang leaders tells the narrator that he's the one who first attacked the "tup" , and he says that "big four's" are here to