One of the chapter that caught my attention is chapter 5 because I personally feel this chapter clarify to me the reader Albert disorder. “He walks through time as if it were as transparent as the bright spring air. But it is not. Tomorrow he will appear in the courtyard of the asylum across from the small stone church, but first there is Albert walking through time as if it had nothing to do with him” (59). This novel reminds me of  sleep walking. While reading I kept on thinking Albert is Sleep Walking and he will eventually snap out of it but he doesn’t. He kept on going and going. “There are moments when he thinks he might be dreaming, that it has all been a dream from which he might awake” (61). Is Albert aware of what he is doing? Why doesn’t he remember?

In this chapter, the little boy tried to be friendly to Albert and offered him a potato fry but Albert walks away even though he didn’t want to. What is pushing Albert away? It seems as if he on a quest to find something and  wouldn’t stop no matter what comes his way. The poor boy could not understand why Albert wouldn’t stop. The little boy probably consider him a friend. “He hears the boy calling him even after he has walked so far away he couldn’t possibly hear him. Don’t go! As if there were a life for Albert there. There is no life for him there. There is no life for him anywhere. This is no life at all” (63). At this point i felt sad for Albert. The force that’s pulling him through this journey is ruining him. He may not ever be able to stop walking.