Summary: The dream Russel sees the ripped up black tent and when he comes in all that is left is two bones and a fox taking the oil lamp to lick up the left over oil because he had took a much too long time and now his family was dead and became skeletons from the scavengers and now the dream lamp lay under the dream overhang. He woke up and Nancy said that she had run away because the church told her it is wrong do become pregnant if you’re not married then they keep going until they stop after a while so he can find food. He goes out to find some food and can’t find any but then sees a giant polar bear and does what he did to the mammoth and make it back onto the spear. Then takes the meat back to her and she is still alive and they eat then she has the baby and asks him to get rid of it. Then they go back and get more meat and fur from the polar bear and then they go to the coast and find an old village where they live and they make his song, a Dogsong.

Main Character: Russel: This develops again because he helps Nancy come back to life and gets meat for him and her and lives out the dream then discards her unwanted baby and they find another village and live there.

Setting: Alaskan Wilderness and Eskimo village

Quote: “The Lace went through the polar bear like a light beam” This is the exact line used when he kills the mammoth in his dream and shows that the dream and run are one in the same except the details are slightly different.

Vocab Definitions:

Coma: A state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.

Discourtesy: Lack of courtesy or niceness; unkindness; rudeness