EWH: Chapter 2
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Ek Was Hier Chapter 2 Summary
What happened, in 50 words:
Chapter 2: Frankie, isolated, seeks refuge in music and street art. She is curious about the artist Bleck le Rat, planning clandestine artwork. She tricks parents into leaving, watches street art documentary, and researches artists. Anticipates nocturnal creativity and dreams of becoming a Banksy mural girl, her excitement intensifying with suspicious movement at father's gate.
Full summary
In Chapter 2, we find Frankie upset and seeking solace in her room, finding comfort in her music and her sketchings. She expresses her desire for some comfort food but is unwilling to face Gloria and the 'Runaround Squirrel', teasing the link to Bleck le Rat – the street artist from France whose book - 'Getting through the walls', she has stowed away. She has also hidden a sketch of one of his rats in her bedside drawer.
She pulls out her guerilla artist kit from her drawer indicating her intention to engage in some street art. Composing herself, she bids her mother goodbye, managing to convince her parents to go out for dinner to buy herself time. Upon their departure, she excitedly watches the DVD she had received in the mail - 'Exit through the Gift Shop', a documentary on street artists, featuring Banksy among others.
Startled by the noise of the garage door, she manages to hide her laptop just in time to bid goodnight to her returning parents. Once alone again, she researches the artists she had seen in the documentary, further fuelling her excitement and anticipation for her night-time creative adventure, further emboldened by the sight of movement at her father's steel motor gate, she gets a glimpse into the covert lifestyle of nocturnal creation. The chapter ends with Frankie dozing off to a dream of becoming the little girl in one of Banksy's stenciled murals in London.