Summary

Daniel watches as his friend Adam creates his own death. He is afraid that the captured rebels will turn him in so instead of being captured he steals a guard’s gun and shoots him. The other guards shoot Adam. Daniel manages to get another note to Erika and they meet at the fence between the yards for a brief conversation. Erika knows she won't survive the next selection, she is so weak, and the next day she is not playing her violin as Daniel and Father march by. Later, when Daniel contracts typhus, Father barters with the guards to let him stay in the barracks. In his delirium he envisions his mother encouraging him. Father tells him that his mother's spirit was with him, that's what pulled him through. Daniel contemplates his father's newfound spiritual beliefs and again thinks of Rosa and her love. He...