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Chapter 1-3

   Quote 1: - “The thinking started. Always it started with a single word. Divorce. It was an ugly word, he thought. A tearing, ugly word that meant fights and yelling, lawyers—God, he thought, how he hated lawyers who sat with their comfortable smiles and tried to explain to him in legal terms how all that he lived in was coming apart—and the breaking and shattering of all the solid things. His home, his life-all the solid things. Divorce. A breaking word, an ugly breaking word (pg 2, chapter 1). -For Brian, family means everything. He believes that his family is comforting, stable, trustworthy and gives him safety, so it's major problem for him that the divorce is taking all that away from him. The comforts and security are taken away from him completely when he gets stranded in the wilderness, Alone.

 

Quote 2: - “No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew—the Secret(pg. 2 chapter 1) ”  -There's something else also bothering Brian than his parents' divorce. It's the reason for the divorce that’s unforgettable to Brian. Nobody still knows what’s Brian's secret is, and why it annoys him so much.

 

 

Quote 3: - “Brian looked out to the side and saw a small pond and at the edge of the pond some large animal—he thought a moose—standing out in the water. All so still-looking, so stopped, the pond and the moose and the trees, as he slid over them now only three of four hundred feet off the ground—all like a picture. (page 2, chapter 1)” -  This is how Brian sees the forest below him just before the plane crashes into the lake. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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