BRIEF SUMMARY: Mr. Willie Thompson is a college professor, and he narrates in this story. Mr. Thompson shares all the gory and hideous details of a pledging experience from his past with a student named Jeff.

The Younger Mr. Thompson, known as "Willie" in this story, bonds, and embraces friendships with five guys (Harry, Noble, Lyle, Timothy, and Nick). All of them possess a burning desire to pledge the glorified fraternity.

Initially, Harry is the only one to get accepted to pledge the fraternity, and he betrays his friends. The fraternity eventually opens its doors to Willie and the others due to Harry's whim, which is to make his ex-friends suffer. The pledges survive the first night of living HELL, followed by weeks of unexplainable horror.

The activity during the pledge process is painstaking, brutal, demoralizing, and somewhat unbelievable, all while encompassing a humorous aspect at times. The inevitability of someone dying during this mission of doom occurs when the pledges' quest to become members is terminated.

Willie and one of his pledge brothers, Noble, vow not to let a friend's death go in vain, so they do what no others had ever done at the university. They uncover and expose all the illegal hazing activities being practiced by the fraternity.

Mr. Willie Thompson completes his story as Jeff realizes that he is late to his very own present day pledging session. Jeff hurries off with his fate unresolved.