"The River" Update + Analysis Prompt
Now, as of today, I have read Chapters 1-7. All these chapters took up 42 pages of the book, meaning I have read about 32% of the book. Even though these chapters are really short, compared to an average chapter book, there are really good details to understand within those chapters, so I am taking some more time to clearly understand those details and proceed on to later events of the book. When reading a novel, I learned that it doesn't matter how long you take to finish the novel; it all matters on how much you understand the story and other aspects of it as well.
In Chapters 6 and 7, in terms of time, they refer to the first night Brian and Derek have in the wilderness, up to the mid-afternoon the next day.
Analyzing the text, the setting impacts the plot of the text. As of now, I have only read the parts of the story where the exposition and the beginning of the rising action take place.
The beginning of the book is the exposition, where Derek is first introduced to Brian and he asks Brian if he can do the whole wilderness trial all over again so that the modern-day society can learn from him. The setting of the exposition is at Brian's home in Canada and that affects the plot events because this is where Derek requests Brian and his mother to let Brian do the wilderness trial again, and this event sets off the other events of the whole story. This setting of Brian's home serves as a good start to the plot events. If the setting of the exposition were not at Brian's home, how could Derek have found Brian and then made the request? That's how Brian's home, as the setting of the exposition, impacted the plot events.
The time when Derek and Brian first reach the wilderness area up till the morning after their arrival serves as the beginning of the rising action of the story. This setting of the wilderness impacts this plot event because the rising action is meant to serve as a time where the main events of the story start happening, in general. That's when the events that are crucial to the story's development start happening. In this story's case, the time of Brian and Derek's arrival in the wilderness and their first steps to adaptation in this wilderness serves as a part of the rising action because their arrival to the wilderness in the first place, serves as a time where the events of the rest of the story would start happening, based on what happened in the exposition, and Derek's request.
The beginning of the rising action of the story has some imagery that helps to promote an intensifying moment within the text. This is when Brian and Derek first reach the wilderness by plane. After their arrival, a huge rainstorm showers on them that night. There is imagery in this rainstorm part of the story that helps to promote the tension within this event. But this event also serves as an experience for Derek on what real survival in the wilderness is really like, and this gives him an idea on what Brian really had to do in order to survive this type of weather in the wilderness (This statement is not directly stated in the text, but can be inferred assuming from the fact that Derek has never been to the wilderness before.).
A quote of imagery that enriches the tension within the text is:
"It wasn't just a rain. It was a roaring, ripping downpour of water that almost drove them into the ground,
They had moved back into the lean-to to try to get some rest since the mosquitoes partially lessened, but the temporary roof did nothing, absolutely nothing, to slow the water.
They were immediately soaked, then more soaked, sloppy with water.
They tried moving beneath some overhanging thick willows and birch near the edge of the lake, but the trees also did noting to slow the downpour and finally they just sat, huddling beneath the willows, and took it.
I have, Brian thought, always been wet.
Always.
Even my soul is wet.
He felt the water running down his back." (Paulsen 37-38)
This quote enriches the tension within the text because the imagery present here shows and describes what both Brian and Derek basically tried doing in order to survive this massive rainstorm. But they ended up huddling beneath the willows and took the coldness of the rain. This imagery therefore, enriches the tension within this event of the story.
The beginning of the book is the exposition, where Derek is first introduced to Brian and he asks Brian if he can do the whole wilderness trial all over again so that the modern-day society can learn from him. The setting of the exposition is at Brian's home in Canada and that affects the plot events because this is where Derek requests Brian and his mother to let Brian do the wilderness trial again, and this event sets off the other events of the whole story. This setting of Brian's home serves as a good start to the plot events. If the setting of the exposition were not at Brian's home, how could Derek have found Brian and then made the request? That's how Brian's home, as the setting of the exposition, impacted the plot events.
The time when Derek and Brian first reach the wilderness area up till the morning after their arrival serves as the beginning of the rising action of the story. This setting of the wilderness impacts this plot event because the rising action is meant to serve as a time where the main events of the story start happening, in general. That's when the events that are crucial to the story's development start happening. In this story's case, the time of Brian and Derek's arrival in the wilderness and their first steps to adaptation in this wilderness serves as a part of the rising action because their arrival to the wilderness in the first place, serves as a time where the events of the rest of the story would start happening, based on what happened in the exposition, and Derek's request.
The beginning of the rising action of the story has some imagery that helps to promote an intensifying moment within the text. This is when Brian and Derek first reach the wilderness by plane. After their arrival, a huge rainstorm showers on them that night. There is imagery in this rainstorm part of the story that helps to promote the tension within this event. But this event also serves as an experience for Derek on what real survival in the wilderness is really like, and this gives him an idea on what Brian really had to do in order to survive this type of weather in the wilderness (This statement is not directly stated in the text, but can be inferred assuming from the fact that Derek has never been to the wilderness before.).
A quote of imagery that enriches the tension within the text is:
"It wasn't just a rain. It was a roaring, ripping downpour of water that almost drove them into the ground,
They had moved back into the lean-to to try to get some rest since the mosquitoes partially lessened, but the temporary roof did nothing, absolutely nothing, to slow the water.
They were immediately soaked, then more soaked, sloppy with water.
They tried moving beneath some overhanging thick willows and birch near the edge of the lake, but the trees also did noting to slow the downpour and finally they just sat, huddling beneath the willows, and took it.
I have, Brian thought, always been wet.
Always.
Even my soul is wet.
He felt the water running down his back." (Paulsen 37-38)
This quote enriches the tension within the text because the imagery present here shows and describes what both Brian and Derek basically tried doing in order to survive this massive rainstorm. But they ended up huddling beneath the willows and took the coldness of the rain. This imagery therefore, enriches the tension within this event of the story.
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