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In the Novel “The Girl who loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King, a nine year old girl named Trisha is lost and alone in the forest by herself. Her mom and her older brother abandon her in the forest by forgetting her when she went to go pee. To help her not lose her sanity, she uses the voice of her favorite baseball player, Tom Gordon, while he is talking on her Walkman. She somehow survives and spends several days in the forest until she is found by a local hunter. This story is important because it show the willingness of a person to find light at the end of a dark tunnel. She survived by herself when all the odds were stacked against her. She didn’t have a lot of food supply with her and she doesn’t have any survival training. She is a young girl at only nine years old so she didn’t have a lot of body weight to compensate for her body going in “survival mode.” “You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now” (King, 142). She started to have flashbacks to her childhood. She realized that she was in a bad situation and had to make the the best of it. She could either survive and somehow make it how …show more content…

The reader will be scared for the girl because they won’t know if she will survive or not. “Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way” (King, 113). The forest sets a dramatic tone and a dark setting for the story because of the dangers in the wild and she is alone. When she first gets lost, she risked being found by leaving the place where she was last seen. She starts to travel in the forest. This decision worked in her favor because she was found by the hunter. She also displays her braveness near the end of the story when she encounters a bear. She stands up to the bear and even throws her walkman like a MLB pitcher to scare it. The hunter fires a shot to make the bear

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