Chapter 6 and 7

Chapter 6 starts off as a flashback with Brian's friend Terry and when they were younger they'd pretend that they were lost in the woods in the park where there was a lot of trees and they would name and list all the things they would do and bring. Brian wishes Terry was there with him but with matches and a knife. He comes back to reality and starts thinking of a way to find shelter. He decides to stay near the river so travels to they rocks near it. lucky for him up towards the northern part he finds a scooped out rock, probably caused by a glacier, that's not deep enough to be a cave but it fairly good and uses that as his shelter. He sat under the rock letting the nice shade. He felt weak, but also hunger. This story has a lot to do with hunger, probably due to the lack of food, it shows how we take life for granted with our fast food restaurants taking over almost every other block. He keeps thinking about food, like Thanksgiving when there was a giant turkey, only if he had that turkey now... I noticed how Brian is always comparing his problem to the ones in TV shows and movies, like now he thinks of a show where pilots got stranded in a desert and ate lizards, but this wasn't the desert. He stood up and started looking for berry bushes like how they did in the desert, but with beans. His mind wandered to the divorce but quickly left that topic, he didn't need that kind of stuff in his mind right now. He got to a tree with a lot of birds in it but soon they left leaving Brian with a tree full of unknown berries. he put one in his mouth then soon started to stuff them in his mouth. He was really hungry. Once his stomach was full, he picked a bunch and made a pouch from his jacket and brought them back to the rock/shelter. Now he needed a fire, he took 2 sticks and started rubbing them, but after 20 minutes they were still cold to the touch. he gave up on the fire and started on the shelter to make it more livable/safer. He took dead tree branches and sticks and wove them together and after 2 hours he finally had a wall to cover up the opening of the rock, and a door way of about 3 feet. He went inside while the sun was setting and fell asleep. Later he woke up with an abrupt pain surging through his stomach. He layed there yelling mother from the pain of the berries as if their pits bursted in his stomach. He crawled outside and threw up in the sand until all the berries were out of his system. Brian really should have been more aware of what he was eating, but then again hunger will do crazy things to you. He crawled back inside and thought back to the secret and how he was with Terry when he saw his mom with another man. he finally fell asleep again. He woke again in the morning and walked out and used sticks to cover up his mess that he made. It was just before dawn when he checked himself in the water. He was dirty and had cuts and scrapes everywhere, not to mention the 2 days worth of bug bites all over his face and body. That is where he was drowned in self-pity. He went and grabbed a handful of the berries that made him up-chuck or "gut cherries" as he now calls it. He washed them and ate them slowly, hoping to fend off the hunger for a little. he studied his shelter and after 3 days of living in the wild he is now referring to it as home. he started to look for better things to eat. 100 yards away from home, he had found raspberries. Brian smiled and started eating. he ate slow learning his lesson from before. It soon faltered when he looked next to him. A large bear came over, he examined the frozen Brian then started eating the Raspberries. Brian quickly turned and ran but then broke into walk after 50 yards when his brain finally came to its senses. If the bear wanted to it could have already hurt him. He went back later and picked a bunch of the berries and put then in his jacket. He sat in his home when it began to rain, after the rain he went to the lake to clean himself off a little then went to sleep with his hatchet right next to him, thinking about the bear. If I were in Brian's shoes when the bear came, I would have started to cry. He is a very brave boy for not freaking out really bad. i worry for Brian with what's to come. I wonder what would've happened if Brian were to get injured, like getting bitten by the bear or something along the lines of that. There is a link to a story about a toddler that survived after being half-eaten to death.














Toddler Survives after being partially eaten