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Comparing Faulkner's The Joy Of Hunting, Questions And Answers

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This book is about a kid named Erik and how his life is turned around dramatically. He and his friend Patrick have been studying and taking their hunter's safety course which allows them to go hunting. Erik and Patrick pass the test and then Erik rushes home to show his parents that he passed. When he got home his parents sat him down to talk to him and they told him that they were being shipped off to Iraq to fight and train people in the army. Erik, later on, found out that he wouldn’t be able to go on the hunting trip him and Patrick have been planning to go on with Patrick's dad for years. Patrick was very upset and then he wondered where he was gonna stay/live while his parents are gone. His parents were gonna send him to Eriks dad’s grandparents

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