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Common Themes In Gary Paulsen's Dogsong

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Cold, dark, lonely. These are all words Gary Paulsen uses, in his book “Dogsong”,to describe the unforgiving wilderness of the arctic. Russell, the main character of this book, uses the frozen wasteland to his advantage and sees it as a getaway from all the troubles of the village. He meets with an elder named Oogruk that advises him in the ways of the past. I really enjoyed reading this book because it was very well written and was exciting throughout the entire book. This is probably one of the best novels I have ever read. It was always exciting with very few pages that didn't make you want to keep reading. The author was very good at keeping you involved with the book no matter which part you were reading. I really liked the way the author wrote this book. He had a very good way of making the story interesting to read as well as making it easy to understand. His word choice was impressive and he described things with such detail that when you read through it you knew exactly what he was talking about. It put a vision of the book in your head. …show more content…

The well thought out settings of this book combined with the author’s amazing word choice made you feel like you were with the character in the same place and at the same time. Some parts of the book were set within a village and other parts were set out in the wilderness. Both of these main settings were well described and you could always tell what part of the day the characters were in. The setting of the book was able to not only support, but improved the plot. If you noticed it was nighttime then you could tell that the plot was going to be different than what you originally thought it was. When the author wanted you to feel like time slowed down, he made things seem slower, when he wanted it faster, he made it seem faster. I couldn't find anything in the setting of this book that Gary Paulsen did

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