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Joe is lying in a hospital, hovering between dreams and wakefulness; he realizes he is deaf.
Book 1, Chapter 1Joe senses the hole that was his face and realizes he's lost his sense of sight, smell, and taste.
Book 1, Chapter 5Joe's terrifying nightmares of a rat devouring him impel him to strengthen his mind and thoughts.
Book 1, Chapter 8Joe ponders the lies told to persuade men to fight and the waste of dying for abstract principles.
Book 1, Chapter 10Joe starts to use his mind and his sense of touch to determine and control time.
Book 2, Chapter 11Joe knows what day it is and remembers specific war events, such as the fate of the soldier Lazarus.
Book 2, Chapter 12The new nurse realizes Joe is tapping Morse code. She finds a man who understands the code.
Book 2, Chapter 18The man refuses Joe's request for freedom, saying it is against regulations.
Book 2, Chapter 20Joe taps a message about the "little" guys rejecting war and destroying the warmongers.
Book 2, Chapter 20| Chapter | Summary |
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| Book 1, Chapters 1–2 | Joe Bonham is feeling very sick. His head feels as if he's "been drinking dynamite." A ringing sound is so loud Joe ca... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapters 3–4 | Joe has been "rising and sinking" in and out of consciousness for months. Yet each time "he came to the surface ... he... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapters 5–6 | In his hospital bed Joe remembers floating in the cool Colorado River on a hot summer day. As he floats he thinks abou... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapters 7–8 | Joe knows he must stop the "smotherings and the sinkings and the risings. ... He has to stop the fear." If he can cont... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapters 9–10 | Chapter 9 recounts Joe's memories of his childhood and youth. Joe, his friend Bill Harper, and Joe's dad are on a camp... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapters 11–12 | Joe is exercising his mind by doing multiplication tables and practicing grammar. He challenges himself to remember th... Read More |
| Book 2: Chapters 13–14 | Joe's calculations are upended one day when the nurse changes his bedclothes two days in a row, not every third day. T... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapters 15–16 | Joe cannot, will not, stop tapping because "he [doesn't] dare think." Thinking might lead him to conclude, reasonably,... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapters 17–18 | Joe awakens from his sedative-induced hallucinations and immediately begins tapping an S.O.S. against his pillow, aski... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapters 19–20 | Joe is stunned by the question the man has traced on his forehead. He thinks long and hard about how to answer the mom... Read More |
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