Summary of Chapters 17-18

In Chapter 17, Cole and Garvey go on a hike. Cole had been Thinking and thinking about his anger. Cole and Edwin come to a pool. They go swimming. Cole's anger suddenly decreases. In chapter 18, Cole begins to build his cabin. After he makes the frames for the walls, he does the whale dance. Cole sleeps fitfully. iN the morning Edwin wakes him for the swimming again. Cole doesn't want to go. He carries the Ancestor Stone.