The Missing Drawing of the Arctic Tern

Each Chapter in Okay for Now involved one drawing of the Bird of America that Doug imitated. It is the most amazing part in the novel that Doug transformed the power of the drawing over his disaster, or loss, or love, or even survival.

Take the Arctic Tern for example, it was the first drawing Doug saw in the public library. At that time he just moved to this new place with his parents which seemed awful for a boy. Everything and everyone is strange to him until he met Lil and happened to see the birds of Audubon's book.

When he saw it he couldn't take his eyes off it.
"He was all alone, and he looked like he was falling out of he sky and into this cold green sea.... His eye was round and bright and afraid,...."
"This bird was falling and there wasn't a single thing in the world that cared at all."
"It was the most terrifying picture I had ever seen."
"The most beautiful."
Doug described the bird as he said about himself terrified in this new town.

At the last chapter, when Doug finished his Arctic Tern, he described the bird the different way like this:
"He was beautiful. He was diving into the water because there was so much for him to find.... He was going to go wherever he wanted to go. And he wasn't alone, you know."
At this time, everything there around him was okay. His father unified with his family members, his brother Christopher was proofed to be innocent, his elder brother Lucas got the job as the coach in the junior school, and Doug received the love and confirmation from the local people and became a good and diligent student at his school. He got the strength from the art and grew up as a whole person.