Victor

This book is based on the true story about a boy eleven or twelve who runs naked in the woods-even in the snow and has long hair and is covered in filth and eats nothing but nuts, berries and acorns and cannot speak. Some villagers claime he is deaf and try to capture him and the feral boy is taken in care of an old lone woman who treats him like a baby. The feral child doesn't understand human tongue and never knows the caress of humans when he feels it. He feels no pain when he takes a potato from the fire with his bare hands. The old woman washes the boy and dresses him an old nightshirt.…