The book begins with Brian flashing
back about when he crashed in a very remote area of Canada. He was flying to
see his dad when the pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian purposely crashed
the airplane into a lake so he had a chance to swim out. He survived and almost
drowned. Brian lived in the wilderness and learned the way of living off the
land through trial and error. When the
winter came, he found some Cree trappers who he lived with until the spring. He
found living back in the city was very hard because of all the noise and
business. He was so used to silence and not a lot of movement. So he goes back
and lives in the wilderness on the same lake with a canoe, cooking materials,
dried food, etc.
An important quote from the text is
on page 11, Brian is talking about living in the bush rather than the city and
how he has changed. “And though he had come back to the bush now because he
couldn’t be with the people back in civilization, and because he knew he would
probably never fit in, he did not hate school or the concept if studying and
learning” This quote shows how Brian couldn’t get used to the business of the
city so he decided to bring books out to the wild with him and teach himself
things he would learn in school.
I can connect to the text because I
am very interested in survival in the wilderness. When I was little my favorite
thing to do was build shelters in the woods out of nothing. I would spend full
days getting dirty and gathering materials. There are still several “forts” as
I would call them standing today, 5 years later.
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