Chapter 17 Summary

In Chapter 17, Lukje spends the night in the woods. When he wakes up, he realizes that his camp is up against a hill so the leaves blew over him during the night to camouflage him from his enemies. Luke wanders all day. When he is so parched he can't stand it anymore, he finds a house with a bucket of water hanging in the back yard. When Luke reaches for the bucket, it clangs to the ground but nobody comes, so Luke thinks the village is another abandoned one. Then, a hand clamps his wrists and a voice asks him why he isn't inside watching like everyone else.

Chapter 17 Analysis

Luke is struggling to separate reality from fiction. He thinks he sees ghosts as he runs through the woods. He also believes that someone is calling his real name, which is Luke. It...