BAM! CRASH! BOOM! BANG! These are some of the things Gary Paulsen had to do. We all have to do these sometimes one way or another but I’m betting not quite as literal as Gary’s. You may be having trouble with some homework or think that your boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating on you. Those times are tough and you could get beaten figuratively. But Gary literally had to crash into trees and roll around on the ground. I am here to tell you that Gary Paulsen is great at writing, dog sledding, and races. Here are way more than enough reasons why I’m right and that your life isn’t as hard as some other people. Gary got into dog sledding to help his family. It all started with Gary, his wife Ruth, and his son while they lived up in Colorado. They …show more content…
You might think that he didn’t have to face that many problems and you might also think they couldn’t have been that hard. Well believe me, there were a ton he had to do and each one was more difficult than the last. They were of various things, the obstacles, and you would never think some of these things would actually be hard. Well, the first set of obstacles he had to face was actually deciding to do the race in the first place. It would be a hard decision just thinking of doing something that hard and telling yourself I’m gonna do this even though it’s gonna be rough. But after that hard choice he had to learn the right way to train his dogs for the frozen tundra and he had to get good and strong dogs for the race. Believe me, that one is a hard one to do. Once he got all of that down he still had to find harder ways to push his dogs so they would do good in the race. And after he found a good way to challenge them, which involved a beaten down car, he had to deal with the funny problem of skunks. Lots and lots of skunks. Then he fixed that problem and moved onto the situation with the money. They did not have lots of it and they barely were able to make it to Alaska with it and had no money for the cargo and food for the race. Gary wouldn’t have been able to do it if it hadn’t been for his travel companion, a stranger, who gave him money he had saved up. And perhaps the biggest problem of all he had to deal with was his