In chapter#11 Brian is hiding the turtle’s eggs that he found near by the lake in his shelter. And Brian is still feeding his fire with wood and branches. After that day, he noticed that he was changing, his leg was back to normal and his face as well, but he knew that he was changing in something else. Brian could see the things now, not like in the city. Brian could see all the details, when he sees a bird for example, he doesn’t just see a bird, he sees its feathers and its colour, that city man could see all the details. Brian could even tell where the wind was going by looking at the water.
The city boy knew he was becoming part of nature. While he was thinking of that, he saw a fish jumping in the water and then Brian thought of something that he can’t resist. Food. He had to catch that fish- he thought. Brian made a spear to catch the fish. It didn’t matter how hard he tried but he couldn’t catch it, it was too fast- the city boy thought, Brian had another idea to catch the fish but it still didn’t work.
Brian is still thinking of what to use to catch that fish that he wanted so much.
In chapter#12 Brian steps on a bird that looks like a very small chicken, he still didn’t figure out what kind of bird that was but he calls it the Follbird. After that day, the city man founds a wolf in the middle of the Canadians forests, and Brian says that the wolf seemed to make contact with Brian. I think that the wolf was trying to say that he was the alpha, the predator. After that Brian saw that they had rescued the plane, which meant Brian was stuck there for ever. So he went back to his shelter with no hope, clouddown. Brian thought that he had no reason to live, so he started to cut himself. In the next day Brian was still there. Then he thought of two true things, he was not the same and he would never be like the old weak Brian, and the second thing was that he would not die, he would not let death in again. After all that thinking the nature man went outside to get the fish. But he still could not catch the fish in the lake, he couldn’t even kill the fish with his bow. Then he realized that there was something wrong, the arrow kept passing thought the fish but it didn’t seem to get hurt. Then he thought of something that he had learned in high school, refraction. That’s why Brian couldn’t get the fish, the fish seemed to be in a place but it was actually in another place. So Brian tried to catch the fish in another way. And at the end of the chapter everything worked, Brian was now full of strong hope.
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