In the book, hunting is very important because it gives life to the story. In the first part of the book, when they went to the hunting trip in North Dakota, Reuben and Davy experienced the “feeling” of being real hunters. Leif Enger is very careful with the way he approaches the “hunting language”. However, the hunting scenario is full of tension. The book says, “Davy was whetting the blade of his hunting knife, a bone handled Schrade. He said, ‘You want me to show you how?’ ‘I shot him, I’ll clean him’. I had no urge to actually gut the bird but I was eleven and a hunter now-a man just beginning his span of pride” (Enger, 9). We can apply that scenario to different situations. Some people start doing something, and then, they want to finish