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Summary Of Brian's Winter By Gary Paulsen

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So far in the book Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen, Brian is stuck in the forest for the winter, and is adapting to the cold atmosphere that is the forests of Canada, and by this food become scarce for Brian and it becomes extremely difficult for him to find food, and then kill it as well, along with food being more scarce and the pond slowly beginning to freeze up. Brian also needs to build a new shelter for multiple reasons. One reason is because of how his food is situated along with the fire he is burning to cook it a bear one day approached the food and fire, and it was right next to Brian and he at one point attacked the bear in order for Brian to protect his food, but the bear attacks Brian, leaving bruises and scrapes throughout his body so he needs to restart his food placement, …show more content…

Brian decides that he is going to construct a new shelter. What he does to fend off the bear is simply move his shelter, and to make a better shelter to fend off the harsh cold, Brian makes multiple attempts to build one, including one of them having his tent full of smoke, which made him leave the shelter with little breath left in him, and constructs a new one. With that, Brian makes a good shelter developed like a teepee that consists with a hole in the middle, where a small fire could flame, and heat up the straw walls of Brian’s shelter, and the hole allowed the smoke to get out, allowing Brian to have a cold fending from the warming flames from the fire and rain deflecting from the straw shelter. Once his shelter was completed, Brian had to find food, but realized with the bigger animals coming out for winter to dominate the frosty grounds, Brian needed a sharper weapon, so he constructed sharper flint from a rock and made it into bigger arrows with a stronger hit when hit into a vital spot inside an animal’s body. So with that, Brian is approaching the harsh winter, and so far seems extremely prepared for the

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