Cheryl The Wild Summary

Wild begins with Cheryl explaining to us her thoughts of hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail. She tells the reader how she has contemplated this journey for awhile and how she has changed her mind several times; but still makes her way to the trail. Prior to her beginning her journey, she tells us a lot about her personal life. Cheryl grew up in a home where her father was verbally and physically abusive to her mother Bobbi. She was one of three children, the middle child. Eventually when her mother reached the age of twenty-eight, she left their father and they had moved to a community for single mothers with children. Cheryl explains how they did not have much at all, but their mother made them feel rich… rich with love. A few years later her mother met a man who was several years younger than she. They fell in love, got married and moved to the country. They had no

She explains that her mother was a very healthy individual who only smoked cigarettes briefly during her young adult years. She had a garden and planted all of their vegetables. She was the type of mother to have you swallow a clove of garlic if you were becoming ill. So Cheryl was flabbergasted that her mother was sick and would eventually die. She seemed to be unrealistic with making it seem that her mother would live forever, however she definitely was not expecting her to pass at the age of 45. Her mother was given a year to live. She had only lived for about seven weeks following the doctor’s diagnosis. Cheryl was by her side the whole time. She had convinced her teachers to allow her to attend classes twice a week, just so she could be with her mother as much as possible. Her other siblings were not present at all. Once she was able to reach her brother Leif and bring him to the hospital; her mother had passed away about an hour just before they had arrived. Cheryl was