Chapter 19 Summary

In Chapter 19, Don pulls his truck out of the garage and people crowd into the cab and the bed of the truck. At the last minute, Don's wife also decides to go. As the crowd drives in the drive, a newscaster comes on the radio that used to speak against the Population Police, and went into hiding when they came to power. He describes how many small events across the country led to the overthrowing of the government. Two of the major events are ones Luke was involved in—putting manure on the path so Jen could destroy the old identity cards and refusing to kill the old woman in Chiutza, which gave the rebels access to the gun.

Chapter 19 Analysis

Luke is continuing to have an identity crisis. He is afraid because he doesn't want the people he is with to...