How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
At that moment the first rock—and it was not rubber or soft foam plastic—struck him in the inguinal region. And the pain, the first knowledge of absolute isolation and suffering, touched him throughout in its undisguised actual form. (21.17)
Violence actually teaches Rick to see how isolated he is. Violence isolated Rick from those he loved, and all alone on the mountain, violence is being done to him.