Everyone keeps accusing the protagonist of being selfish, but no one actually knows what he went through. Just like the first time he saw that black panther, no freshman would have gone there looking for trouble. He only wanted to get an eye exam, and instead he got dragged into a whole series of things he knew nothing about. That is not fair.
It makes me angry, and honestly, deeply hurt. What gives them the right to treat me like that? I was already trying to process the pain and trauma I had gone through that same year. I was trying to adapt to a completely new environment, and yet they so easily shattered every bit of balance I had managed to build.
I am not selfish enough to ask the whole world to understand me, but could the whole world at least stop provoking me?
The lion says that everyone came to take care of me, but that I rejected them all. He is a hypocrite. Did anyone actually offer real, practical help? No. It was just empty words. Worse than that, they did this to someone who was already mentally and emotionally so fragile. Put any normal person in that situation, and none of them would have been able to endure it.