While Brian was out in the wilderness alone he had good memories …show more content…
In chapter 1 the text states, “… catalog what had led up to his taking this flight. 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. Divorce. Secrets. 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. Divorce. The Secret.” The memory that were bad made him think that he was not going to make it. It also made him think about choices before he did them so it was not a life or death situation. He also has the bad memories that made him feel bad not telling his dad and that made him think that he was never going to make it home. He had a bad memory where it help him get back up on his feet and not to give up.
Overall, Brian hade memory all through the book he still he still use them to day to learn from. They are still good memories and bad memories he can learn from today. He still think about how he was stranded out in the woods today. He still wonders if he was out there longer than