There are times, however, when three or four days go by without eating anything and I am on the verge of death. Somehow they always find food. It could be as simple as walking into a house, opening a cabinet, getting food, and then eating it. Once or twice could be seen as a normal coincidence, but eventually they find a war bunker stocked with everything you can imagine. Perhaps all these “lucky finds” are not really lucky finds at all; perhaps a greater being is intervening. The man and boy find a flare gun on a boat, and that gun later helps save their lives (240). These little hints are hints at divinity and seem to indicate only the fact that God watches over the boy and has made him a