Instead of looking for a color or for a whole bird, he starts to look for the bird's shape, and suddenly he starts finding the birds everywhere. Perspective is everything. Using this new perspective, Brian tries to catch a bird with his bow, but the arrows don't fly far enough or accurately enough.
He tries throwing his fishing spear, but he's just not fast enough to get the birds before they can fly away. Eventually, Brian develops a method of sneaking up on the birds—walking sideways toward them until he's close enough to thrust the spear, instead of throwing it. By doing this he's able to catch and kill one of the foolbirds. But taking the bird back to the shelter, Brian's not quite sure how to go about eating it.
He knows that he has to clean it, but he doesn't know how. They don't teach you this stuff in school. He thinks of the pilot, dead in the plane, and a huge weighty sadness sweeps over him. Compelled to say a few words for him, Brain hesitates because he does not know the "right words," the words of organized religion. He decides to simply concentrate and wish the pilot a peaceful rest. Brian works to restore his shelter to its former shape and to gather more firewood. Exhausted from a day of hard work, he lies down to go to sleep when it occurs to him that the survival pack that the pilot had mentioned might still be in the plane, and perhaps he could access it.
Wondering what it might contain, Brian hopes that he will find food or tools, and decides to try to find it the following day. He falls asleep with the picture of the tail of the plane in his mind. The next morning he eats some fish to gain some energy for his project and reasons that a raft would be the best method to get out to the plane. Finding the construction of the raft difficult, Brian must find a way to attach the logs to one another. After many frustrating attempts, Brian interweaves branches into the logs to hold them together.
Moving the raft presents another time-consuming challenge, and, as dusk approaches, Brian decides to return back to his shelter for the night and try again in the morning. Brian sensed fall in the air on this beautiful night in the woods. In the morning, he sets out for the plane on his raft. Attaching the raft to the plane, Brian shutters as it occurs to him that he might see the pilot down underwater.
Frustrated by his inability to access the inside of the plane, Brian strikes it with his fist and the aluminum covering opens. Using the hatchet to cut through the rest of the sections, Brian is hacking away at a furious pace when he suddenly drops the hatchet and it falls to the bottom of the lake. In this part of the book Brian notices that the events of his life in the wilderness defy societal measures of time.
Rather, the routines of nature dictate his behavior. He must follow nature's cycles and weather patterns, but he can largely shape his day around his needs for sleep and food, as well as his activities to improve his shelter or find food.
Brian begins to define and measure time by the major events in his wilderness life. Giving a name to each major accomplishment or event, Brian formulates his own notion of time. For example, he calls his first successful hunt for a foolbird the day of First Meat. The author once again points to the communion Brian experiences with nature. When Brian spots the wolf on the hill, Paulsen writes, "He knew the wolf now, as the wolf knew him, and he nodded to it, nodded and smiled.
When he met the bear for the first time in the berry patch, he initially feared it, but when he meets the wolves on the hill, he immediately acknowledges them and respects them. Fear vanishes in favor of his appreciation for their beauty and nobility, as he stands for what seems like a long time to him, simply watching them.
At this point Brian has lived there for some time and feels he can identify with the animals because he lives a similarly simple life in the woods. He too must struggle to find food and to avoid the dangers of nature, bringing him closer to the animals and enabling him to understand them in a way that had been impossible before he had shared their environment. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Character List Brian Robeson. Themes Motifs Symbols. To play this quiz, please finish editing it. Delete Quiz.
Question 1. How do you know a good deal of time has passed between the end of Chapter 12 when the plane flies away and the beginning of Chapter 13? At the end of Chapter 12 Brian was going to make a bow and arrow to catch fish and at the beginning of Chapter 13 Brian is tired of eating fish. Brian is placing pebbles in a hollowed out rock; one for each day he has been in the wilderness, and the rock will no longer hold any more pebbles.
The author begins Chapter 13 with a description of the changes in weather over the last two months. Brian is keeping track of the days by making notches with his hatchet on a piece of wood, and he states that many notches have been made.
While he was hunting Brian sensed an animal nearby. Brian was not fast enough to hit the fish and they swam away. How does Brian store his fish? Brian tied the fish with one of his shoelaces and hung them in a tree. Brian built a holding pen out of rocks at the edge of the lake.
Brian wove a basket from small branches and placed it at the edge of the lake.
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