Have you owned your own sailboat when you were fourteen years old well there is “A fourteen year old boy stood there looking at his own sailboat. Does this sound like most fourteen year olds you know?.” The boy is trying to make his last sail with his grandpa but it didn’t happen because his grandpa came down with cancer and wasn’t going to make it. In The Voyage of The Frog, Gary Paulsen uses the character of David to demonstrate determination to complete a task. That task is to make that last sail worth it. David a fourteen year old boy wanting that last sail with grandpa Owen but it turns out that David don’t know that Owen is in the hospital dying quickly. David decides to go sail by himself and do it for Owen. David said,” Even if Grandpa