The narrator walks back to the house, and learns that Arthur is now engaged to Muriel.

He leaves early in the morning without saying goodbye and the narrator never learns his name.

The narrator learns that these are common as bicyclists travel at high speeds through the fog.

From him, the narrator learns that people may be Christian or Jewish, but that angels are for everyone.

However, The narrator learns a valuable lesson from this event, that he'd been thinking much too small.

Sweeping up the city's trash, the narrator learns about the reality of working with his hands in a revealing rather than humiliating job.

Brandy is learning to speak like a woman and the narrator is learning to speak without a lower jaw.

The narrator learns that as the society's work began, it became clear that a single generation wasn't sufficient to articulate the entire country of Uqbar.

Over the course of the story, the nameless narrator fails to relate to her seven Jang friends but finds herself, feels emotion, and learns love.

The coming-of-age memoir gets more attention if its narrator learned about life at a socially prestigious school.