Summary: Russel has dream that there are people in a tent eating red coarse meat with yellow fat. The husband and wife both look very sad and worry then the husband leaves and takes his huge dogs out. They find a trail and keep going on it then after a while see a mammoth so Russel pulls out his lance and fixes it into the ground then the mammoth backs up, falls on it and as it goes through him. And Russel figures he is the man in the dream . He then wakes up and clothes himself and keeps going out until at the end of the day he finds where there was a large overhang so he set skins over it to make a shelter then sets his bed up and something digs into his back. He wants a good sleep so gets it out and it’s a oil lamp so he takes some fat from the deer and moss for the wick and uses the stone lamp to heat his tent area and he has another dream.

Main Character: Russel: This character develops a lot because he figures out his strange dream and becomes one with the man in the dream and then makes a great tent area in his next camp.

Setting: Alaskan wilderness

Quote: “Two children were small round and wonderfully fat eating coarse red meat with rich yellow fat.” This shows how abundantly fat and well-nourished these children were and the whole family so well off before the husband went away.

Vocab Definitions:

Exultation: the act of exulting with triumphant joy over success or victory.

Rendered: To reduce or melt down fat by heating.