The Book

''It was focus, focus was the answer and the necessity. ''

____Jude mentioning the importance of The Book.

Role
The Book is the diary of Cori Ewwitz. It is the place where she documents, updates and references her self made code of conduct. Jude tells most of the story while using the contents of the book to describe and define countless terms and events. The Book is vital to both Cori's sanity and motivation.

Creation
The Book started out as a small notebook where Cori kept the graffiti stickers that she collected from the street. During her years as a runaway she needed to learn and remember countless skills in order to survive. She started documenting tips and information that she picked up from stolen library books at around the age of seven. During her time with Corey Damps, she took many notes on his philosophy and continued to update it while they practiced his distinct lifestyle. Corey's code was completely documented and followed by the time that Cori reached the age of nine. She most likely got the idea of creating her own code from him. Cori started making up fake curse words and slang terms after she was captured and sent to her first foster home in years. During the time she spent in this foster home, she had many rivals and enemies who tried to pick on her. By this time, Cori's psychological health was questionable. She ended up turning the book into a dictionary to house a wide variation of insults and profanity. She studied the ways that her enemies picked on her and wrote them down as strategies to learn from.

When Cori started her first year at a regular public school, she used the experience to study further. her interest in linguistics and psychology grew during this time and it led her to seek out large amounts of information through books and articles. With her incredibly basic and biased understanding, she sought out to create her own branch of study. The result was a crudely put together encyclopedia of made up terms that she applied to various personality traits and mannerisms. She picked them up by "experimenting" and observing the children in her school.

By the time she had filled about three notebooks, she discovered philosophy. While the subject never greatly interested her, it ended up changing her mindset about the study from scientific to artistic. She started to develop a code with all of the information that she had gathered and organized, the result was The Book. A mixture of Corey Damps's ideology of life mixed in with her own personal rules and disciplines.