Whiteout Chapter 17

Whiteout Chapter Seventeen


Assigned questions 85, 87 &88


Plot Summary

• Calvin acts as a father to Jon when he returns to the house after the ice incident.
• He gives him a blanket off his own bed.
• The near death experience brought back old memories of Jon’s father’s funeral.
• He woke with night terrors of being trapped under the ice.




Reoccurring symbols/ images


• Sedna. Jon writes in his journal, “when I awoke, Pudlo’s grandmother was drying me. She was drying me. She was singing about some woman under the sea who helped me.”


Dictionary items

• Eterii- come in