Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Sign of the Beaver
I am currently reading a booked titled The Sign of the Beaver. It is writen byElizabeth George Speare. The story begins with a man and a son settling on new land in Maine. They build their house out of logs and get eveything ready to live there. Once the work was done the father left his son in the woods to watch over the cabin and get it ready for winter while he went back to get his mother and sister. The boy faces many different chalanges living alone in the woods and becomes friends with the local indians who teach him how to survive. Would you be able to live in a cabin in the woods by your self for a long period of time? Would you know how to survive?
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I think the “Sign of the Beaver” sounds like a adventurous book that I would like to read. It looks very interesting to read.I also think this book could help people think if they were in the woods by them selves so they could survive.
ReplyDeleteI would be able to live in the woods by myself for a long period of time but I don’t think I could survive alone. I would say that because I’m pretty useless when it comes to doing things in the woods and I wouldn’t want to kill the animals to eat them.
ReplyDeleteI think that the book sounds really good. If I was alone in the woods I think I could survive but I don’t know how long.
ReplyDeleteWow im really interested just from what i just read. It seems exciting and thrilling. If i was lost in the woods id be clueless i dont think i would make it very long.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely not be able to survive in the woods but I consider myself very good at befriending other cultures. Becoming one with a Native American culture would be quite difficult at first but over time I believe they would come to accept me as their own.
ReplyDeleteIf I was left alone by my father for a long period of time in the woods, I think I would be able to survive. I enjoy hunting and fishing, I can skin animals and clean fish, so my food would be taken care of.
ReplyDeleteI probably would not be able to survive alone in the woods. I'm not much of a hunter or a fisher so my food supply woulnd't be able to last very long.
ReplyDeleteI would not be able to survive in a cabin by myself, not even for like a couple hours. I would probably end up talking to myself in a corner eating twigs and berries. I’d be begging the Indians to adopt, they could even call me “White Rain.” I wouldn’t know how to survive, at all.
ReplyDeleteIf my dad left me in the woods, i would at least make him give me guns and amo or some type of protection. I'm pretty confident that i would survive. I go camping and hunting, so it's kind of second nature to me.
ReplyDeleteLiving in a cabin by myself does not sound fun at all. I would be way too bored and I would not know what to do all day. I don’t like to hunt or fish so I would be unable to survive as well. I don’t know what I would do for food. I would also be scared about encountering wild animals while in the woods. Because of all of these reasons I would for surly not be able to survive.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young, I read all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and had these fabulous romantic ideas about living in the wilderness. Creating a garden and hunting for food sounded like fun. I would daydream about how I would be just like laura, but the reality is if left alone in the wilderness, I wouldn't last long. I'm a spoiled city girl and probably wouldn't last a day without a hot shower, hair dryer, and the modern cooking appliances like the microwave. I think it's best if I enjoy the great outdoors through stories like the one you've read...that way I can still enjoy my microwave popcorn:)!
ReplyDeletePersonally I need human communication; I mean I’m an extravert! I could make friends with the Native Americans, but I would probably just end up in the fetal position in the corner of the cabin. I would not be able to live in a cabin in the woods in the first place, let alone, alone. I know how to garden and hunt and such, but those are just activities I do for fun. If I actually had to do that stuff to live, I would die in a heartbeat. For being a lazy person, I don’t think I would be able to keep up the work to keep myself alive. I very much enjoy the outdoors, but in short spurts. I need my Big Sexy hair spray and morning coffee to even consider it a day. Those withdrawals would be too much to handle.
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