and i would bet he says this stuff a lot, like anytime he and crutchie talk about it, and stuff like it. and the things about being treated fairly without having to ask for it and all of that. i think crutchie also just loves and cares about jack and wants to be where he is, but i think it matters to him more that he be capable of doing what the others are capable of doing. in new york, as a newsie, everyone walks. he is expected to be able to walk, and he can, but not as easily as the others can. in santa fe, or at least jack's version of it, everyone rides horses, which he could do just as well as anyone, theoretically. he doesn't want to stick out or be seen as weak. just earlier today, i was thinking about the scene in the movie where they go to bust him out of the refuge, and when he says he can't walk too well right then, jack says they'll carry him, and he says he'll never let anyone carry him. in the very first scene in the musical, he says he doesn't want the other guys to see he hasn't been walking well. jack makes santa fe sound like this place where his disability won't slow him down; where it might even disappear. do i think crutchie believes "a few months of clean air" will heal a paralyzed leg? no. hell, i'm not sure jack does, either, i think he's just on a roll and trying to cheer up his friend. but i think crutchie wants to believe it, like, so badly. the way he starts crying on "watch me stand; watch me run"? i've posted about this before, but i think that's him trying so hard to believe it, to convince himself, but knowing it's hopeless.
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