A Long Walk Chapter Summaries

They set up a big trap even the crazy old man helped, so they could kill this monster. As soon as they lured the monster in they started shooting at it, but then they blew the monster up! They were all getting trapped in the cave knocked out because the rocks were falling where they couldn’t get out. They barely made it out of the cave, they were suffocating from the smoke. A wave come by a shook them where they fell into the water. Only Howie and Danny was immune to coldness so they had to save Ash and Pike.

From the waves of the Gulf of Mexico to the plains of Indiana, from a barn in the Ozarks to the White House, this is a sweeping depiction of the effect of a major catastrophic change on the USA.

The first chapter of Braving the Wilderness is Everywhere and Nowhere. This chapter is about her family and her life as a teenager. The main topic is that we do numerous things with torment to not feel it. We numb or deliver it on others, we deny it or pass it onto friends and family, or we discover empathy for ourselves and claim the agony. In chapter 2 of Braving the Wilderness, she talks about the political atmosphere and how it is like a battle zone. She also defines belonging on page 31. It says belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. I can relate to wanting to belong especially in high school. She also tells us to learn how to be brave and to experience the discomfort of standing alone is a skill we need to learn. In High Lonesome a

1-3. The main idea of Chapter 1 Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) (pp.1-6) can be concluded in the following sentence: every story is a quest that consists of a person that has a reason to go to a certain place with challenges on one’s way which then leads the particular person (usually the main hero of a story) to the actual, or real, reason associated with self-knowledge, because the quest is always educational.

Hunter steps back and smirks as Carter climbs to his feet and brushes off his clothes. Carter resists the urge to trip hunter as he runs toward the beach and up to Hillcrest. Carter walks up the dirt hill to the chapel. The path winds through the woods and the roots of the closely grown trees are used in place of stairs. Carter arrives at the chapel. They don’t use the space as often as they should. It is simple with large screen windows, a plain wooden cross, and unadorned altar at the front. They sing inside occasionally, but the campers often don’t care for the building, they find it oppressive. Carter pauses at the top of the hill. Surveying the camp spread out below him,

Chapter 30 begins with Niska collecting stones that speak to her, in order to build a fire. Xavier is fading away, while Niska tries her best to keep him alive with her stories. She figures that she knows of no medicine or other methods to help ease Xavier’s pain. She want to tell him of his first hunting story alone when Xavier was 6 years old. When tracking a moose, he found a rare chance to witness a mating dance of grouse. Xavier forgot about fear as he watched the dance; however he was hungry, so he shot the female strangler. The next day, he and his aunt tracked and killed the moose. They were proud and returned home for a feast with other awawatuk. Xavier told them of his hunting story by dancing, from then on, he was nicknamed, Little

Nebs pounded on the bridge door furiously with her hooves. She knew it was futile effort, but she persisted.

Once they looked like mug monsters, more or less, they made their way to the gates, acting like a pair of regular mug monsters.

In the first chapter of How to Read Literature like a Professor, Foster gives an example of a quest by making up a story about a boy named Kip. On the way to the supermarket to get some white bread, Kip encounters various difficulties including a German shepherd, the girl of his dreams hanging out with someone else(Karen), and his deeply humiliating bike in comparison to Tony Vauxhall’s Barracuda. After Kip reaches the store, he decides to lie to the Marine recruiter about his age in order to get away from his current way of life and the fact that the society he lives in revolves purely around wealth. Here Foster points out that a quest has already began and further enhances the concept of it by listing the five things that it consists of: the quester

Francis explains it's an old burial spot, that may even be old than him. While talking to Liam and Beckah the inflection of Francis' voice has a fearful quality. He tells the children to flee from this place. Through his special vision, Liam saw another spirit approaching. Liam realized the spirit was Fenris. Fenris attempts to grab Liam by the scruff, while simultaneously yelling, "Bring it to me, find it and bring it to me" Fenris also mentioned his brother in his rage-filled speech. Shortly after this outburst both spirts disappear and the day turn normal. Liam shared with the rest of the group what he just witnessed. They then decide to split up to question others in the town about Fenris' family.

Chapter one starts with Robert E. Lee walking out of his tent in the morning, not feeling so well. He strolls around the camp, noticing that Stuart had not returned during the night. Despite this, he is confident that he will be back by sunset. Lee continues in his daily duties, talking to his aids, discussing various issues, and speaking with the townspeople. Lee then meets with Longstreet, telling him that he does not want him on the front lines of battle. Longstreet then declares that he believes that the Union army is iin Gettysburg, and suggests that Lee move the confederates in between Washington D.C. and Gettysburg, preventing the Union from being able to contact the capital. Lee is sick of hearing Longstreet’s defensive tactics, and

Chaol ran in a few minutes later. He had trouble catching up to her on a horse, a horse. When Chaol walked in, Celaena lunged towards Chaol, with her dagger in her hand, and tried to stab Chaol. He fell back. “You did this!” Celaena said, glancing towards Nehemia’s dead body on the bed. Still on top of Chaol, Celaena pushed all her weight on the dagger in her hand. She was struggling. It was like an invisible force was stopping her. When she glanced at Dorian, the guards in the room grabbed Celaena and Chaol told them to throw her into the dungeons. A few days had passed and Celaena was out of the dungeons and back in her rooms, though she never came out. A few more days passed by, and Celaena wanted to find out more about the King’s plans.

The chapter titled “Every Trip is a Quest” peaked my curiosity, the meaning behind the chapter name led me to a realization which had not occurred in my head before. Foster gives an interesting take on the daily like tasks and issues that we go through every day. He gives a very short, but descriptive made up event, in which a guy named Kip faces his own hardships and accomplishes his true mission. These sample paragraphs were my favorites, in this order

The Hero’s Journey can be portrayed in many ways. An example of this is how it’s portrayed in The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and in A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. The Hobbit is a fictional story about a hobbit named Bilbo who lives quietly until a wizard named Gandalf sends him on a journey to steal treasure from a dragon. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of the author’s time being a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Africa and how he had to do things no child should ever have to do. Both of these books have steps of the hero’s journey, but are portrayed differently.

Craig Mullaney definitely made many challenges for himself and accepted challenges from others with no questions asked. Being the thriving Valedictorian of his high school class and earning other prestigious accolades he stood out from the other entire student. But at West Point, Mullaney would be intertwined with hundreds of other classmates with the same, if not more achievements, making it seemingly impossible to be any kind of a predominant student.