Summary: My Side of the Mountain is about a boy named Sam Gribley. Sam lives in New York, but wants more than anything to live in the Catskill Mountains. His great-grandfather's land is up there, and Sam believes that he could live up there alone and survive. One day, Sam sets out. He goes into the woods and avoids other humans. He makes friends with the animals instead. He even finds and trains a falcon. He uses the most any skills he has to enable his survival. Predict: Based on the fact that a little boy runs away from home and goes to live in the woods I predicted that he would get scared and go home. But he manages to keep going and live on his own which is surprising to me that he did not get scared and want to go home. Connect: This …show more content…
It made me wonder what it would be like making my own shelter and how time consuming it would be. It also made me wonder how would I stay warm in the winter, I mean yes you can build a fire but that won’t keep you as much as being in your own house. You can where heavier clothes but even that might not help. When I read the part in the book where he gets snowed in to his shelter it made me think how big was the door to his shelter. He had to dig his way up through the snow just to get out. When I pictured his shelter in my head it was a decent size tree and the door was a pretty big door. So when he got snowed in it made me think maybe his door was low to the ground or maybe the snow was just really high. Visualize: When I read the part in the book where it first mentions the Catskill Mountains I just picture what they looked like from a distance. When I pictured them I pictured the mountains that are around us except high and bigger. I picture that there would be snow on the top of them and the top wouldn’t have as many trees I thought the top would have a lot of rocks on the top and just a few trees. While I was reading the book I had an idea of what Sam the main character looks like, I pictured a little boy about twelve or thirteen years old he was about five feet tall and had dirty blonde
Who would ever thought that Sam Gribley age 12 would have ever runaway? The There are similarities and differences from My Side of the Mountain book and movie. PS I personally think that the book is better than movie . There many similarities and from the book and movie My Side of the Mountain .
The book really made me think of all the stuff that I take for granted, and how I should be more appreciative and how there are people with less than me who are just as happy if not happier. If you’re not a fan of books that are sad but shocking and at times harsh because you think they’re boring or they don’t fulfill you’re interests, then I would still recommend you try reading the book because it’s very intriguing but I can’t guarantee you’ll love it, and if you do enjoy books like that then I say it’s a must read! Such a great true
He goes on to the forest and starts a new life there. He finds himself lonely and panics for awhile, when he realized that he was actually hungry. He decides to follow the birds to find food. The first berries gave him diarrhea and vomit.
He makes a shelter, Finds and hunts food and even learns to make fire. His determination shows that he is a hero and does not give up, even when it gets tough.
The poem “From this Height” by Tony Hoagland explores the ideas of the power of wealth, individual versus society, and the circle of life. The speaker, a very wealthy man, uses his money to support his opulent lifestyle. His wealth gives him a very affluent place in society and access to many things a middle class man would only dream of. The speaker struggles with the fact that society played a huge role in his success, yet most people do not get to life the way that he does. The idea of the “circle of life” gives the speaker a reason to justify the way he uses his money and lives his life, because he realizes “it would be a sin not to enjoy” all that he has been blessed with.
The visual descriptions paint a picture of the unsettling scene within the reader’s mind. The depiction of the skeletons scattered on the slopes reveal how humans end up the same way in the
Jaydon Nguyen Ms. Sinders English I PreAP 17 February 2017 Independent Reading Project: Cold Mountain Novel By: Charles Frazier Date Published: 1997 Genre: Historical Fiction Genre Description: A historical fiction novel must require the plot to take place during a previous time period and is using a character that is not actually real. “Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier, fit perfectly into the genre of historical fiction, where the time period is in the 1800’s and the characters are not real people.
As kids we are faced with challenges and obstacles, but we end up overcoming and growing from these obstacles in the end. In the movie, The Legend of the Mountain Man, the kids in the movie are faced with many obstacles that they have to overcome and deal with. One of them being their Dad having cancer and him having to leave them at their grandparents house while he gets treatment for his illness. At their grandparents house, the kids learn that their family has many secrets, and they are determined to figure out exactly what those secrets are. While on the quest to uncover their hidden family secrets, they learn about the legend of the mountain man.
It also exemplifies the jurastic difference between the peaceful areas of the forest and the extreme woods in Alaska. One moment there can be a nice little open field and the next you cannot see ten feet without a tree getting in your way. From that the reader can easily foreshadow the events to come in Alex’s
He had to learn how to survive without instruction from anyone else. He says, “We have made a bow and many arrows. We can kill more birds than we need for our food; we find water and fruit in the forest. At night, we choose a clearing, and we build a ring of fires around it. We sleep in the midst of that ring, and the beasts dare not attack us.
“The Way to Rainy Mountain” is organized very well, it includes three narrative voices. Throughout this novel the first narrative voice is about the Kiowa legends. Then Momaday has a paragraph of contexts that relates to the legend. The author gives the reader a bit of his life by relating a family experience he had. Because some of the Kiowa legends and history go with Momadays own family history, then this three voice narration allows the author to have great detail about the Kiowa’s way of life in every way.
It taught me that strength and perseverance can make a significant impact in life. I also learned that forgiveness and the ability to forgive is much more powerful than I ever realized. This novel sucked me into the story and its characters and took me on an emotional ride of highs and lows. Finally, it forced me to reevaluate my previous judgement of the homeless.
In the beginning of the story, a description of the setting is presented: “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between
I noticed everything; every little branch on the trees, every twig in the snow, the way the snow fell, the little gaps in between the trees. The snow fell delicately and vanished in the sea of snowflakes. The evergreen trees oscillate in the wind, revealing new chambers to slip through. My mind sees everything, it's almost as if I am a camera on autofocus. The wind picks up again and I have to momentarily pause to regain my balance.