Taking gabe, jonas leaves his dwelling at night, taking leftover food from the night's supper trays, which have been placed outside doorways for the collection crew to pick up. he steals his father's bicycle because he needs the infant seat attached to it for gabe, who now symbolizes new life and the future.

In e. c. tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. this experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form of their surroundings.