Chapter 11 & 12 Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Summary: He is not in the coastal village any more he is headed back to his family but there is a great storm and he whips his dogs to get them to keep going but then stops and takes shelter for the wind is to strong and back at home the mom and her kids aren’t fat any more they are skin and bone and have eaten even there clothes the mom wipes some grease from the oil lamp onto both there lips one licks it off the other doesn’t. Russel wakes up and leaves and as he’s riding out the dogs find tracks and then a snowmobile with no gas and his happy him and his dogs live off the land but then after a while longer the dogs stop and he looks up ahead and finds a girls freezing so he sets up shelter and heats her up and he can tell she is going to live as he falls asleep.
Main character: Dream Russel: This developed because he was having a great time with the other people but decided he had go back and then after only a while longer he was stormed in. And because of this his family is dying.
Setting: Alaskan wilderness
Quote: “My dogs and I live off land which a snow machine can not” This shows importance because he can live off the snow and animals that are of the land which as a snow machine needs gas to function.
Vocab Definitions:
Igloo: An Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
Whisp: A thin puff or streak, as of smoke