Try and recall the scene very early in 19 Minutes where the cafeteria is set up by social groups. Then consider this quote that appears later in the novel...
"Popular kids didn’t really have friends. They had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust. At any moment someone might make you the laughing stock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them."
Do you think this is how the socially elite view themselves? Are their lives devoid of any real friendships?
