USFS 1919 was a very detailed account of the 17th year of the boys life. Throughout the story his detailed view on the nature and the people outlines the climax of the story. Bill Bell becomes the guy we would all like to be friends with or to be on his goodside. We also come to hate the cook and don't want to show mercy on him when he gets "rolled" by the boys so called 'next door neighbors' (the whore and the hairy butt man). I thought it was interesting throughout the story how we never once figured out 'the boys' name. I also liked the detailed account when he was the lookout watching for the lightning to strike that would start fires. He talks of the mountains healing him when he was a young boy. I also like the sentence: "I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me". I love this because of the
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(Note: added to the body of the blog) artistic descriptions he has on a very plain thing like a mountain. I liked this stroy it wasn't extremely exciting or something i could put down but i liked the way he led into the poker scene. It was basically a detailed acount of his everyday like working as a fire service man in the mountains of Idaho.
ReplyDelete"Hairy butt man"...yeah, that detail always makes me snicker. Good points, although I'd like to know more about why you liked some of the things you liked.
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