Brain' Hunt Pages 75-113
Brian decides to go see if the others are alive. He finds the mother mauled on the shoreline. He knows they have three kids. Brian searches far and wide for them, but they are no where to be found. Then he sees someone paddling a canoe towards him. It is one of the cree trappers kids, it is a girl, about his age. She tells him the other children are in Ontario visiting family. Her name is Susan. Susan says she was out berry picking and when she came back to camp, the bear had chased her to the canoes and she had been out on the canoe staying away from the bear for over 3 days. Susan hadn't slept at all since then, and she proceeds to fall asleep. Brian decides that he will go find and kill the bear. Susan calls a helicopter to pick her up. Then Brian is alone. He walks around the island with a bow and arrows. The bear suddenly attacks him from behind. Brian thinks he is about to die when the dog jumps on its back. It is just enough of a distraction for Brian to grab his knife and kill the bear. The story is finished.
A good quote from the passage would be when Brian was just about to be killed by the bear, and he gives up. "The last thing he saw was an enormous wall of fur coming over him and he thought, all right, this is how it ends. This is how it all ends." Brian gives up because he thinks the bear is about to kill him. But it shows to never give up. Once he thinks he is just about done, the dog jumps on the bear and Brian gets a chance to kill him.
I can connect to this part of the story because Brian thinks he is done and there is no coming back. In basketball games before, I sometimes think we are done at halftime and that we will lose. But then we start playing well and they started playing badly. Things can change so easily. Things changed very quickly for Brian and he is lucky they did, otherwise he would have been killed.
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