After having seen many good people, David is suddenly thrown back into a cruel atmosphere. Give examples to show what the Swiss farmer and his family are like.

The storm in his mind is echoed by the storm raging around him, and David finds it increasingly difficult to keep moving but refuses to call on God for help. Just as he's about to faint from the cold, however, he is discovered by a man whom he immediately believes is one of THEM.

Narration reveals, however, that the man is in fact just a farmer, but a cruel and selfish one who lives with his equally cruel family on a remote farm. They take David in and, keeping him locked up in the barn at night, give him a bit of food in exchange for days full of hard work. But while he hates the farmer and his family, David realizes he never would have survived the winter on his own, and in fact has better food and better sleeping conditions than he had had in the concentration camp.

One day, however, a dog named King arrives. Narration describes David's fear of dogs, resulting from bad experiences with the cruel, hungry dogs that had been let into the concentration camp. He tells King that he is afraid of him, but King simply curls up with him as he sleeps. Eventually, narration comments, David and King become friends. Meanwhile, David finds himself imagining a happy, wanted, beautiful life with his mother (see "Quotes," p. 165).

The long winter slowly passes, and David realizes he needs to make a plan to get away from the farm before the farmer calls the police.