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Sam left New York in May. Sam had a penknife, a ball of cord, and ax, and $40, which he had saved from selling magazine subscriptions. He also had some flint and steel which he had bought at a chinese store in the city. |
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| ⚫ | Sam also has many animal companions in his wilderness house, which is inside a tree that he hollowed out himself. Eventually he makes friends with a man that he calls Bando, because Sam mistakes him at first for an escaped convict of some sort, when it turns out Bando is a professor of English. Sam fishes and traps animals for food. Early on he retrieves a baby [[peregrine falcon]] and names her Frightful. He teaches Frightful to hunt for both of them and they become best friends. He lives a free life in the wilderness for more than a year. In addition, he traps deer and encounters tourists during his time in the forest. |
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on his first night Sam gets on a train north of New York in search of the catskills, which house his families abandoned and overgrown farm which had been in his father's side of the family. He hitchhikes to the Catskills, and spends a lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structure, that consists of a hemlock bow and a stump) He had fished 5 trout, but as it turned out he couldn't eat them for he couldnt get a spark going, do to bad wind conditions. |
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In the morning he climbs up a hill and finds a small cottage not 100 feet form his tortured camp. He runs down to there, and bangs on the door. When an old man (as he later learns his name is bill)he asks if he could cook his fish. He learns how to properly make a fire, and then leaves. |
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Later on he moves on to living in a partially dead hemlock tree that he had burned and dug the rotten insides out of. After he establishes a house, he decides to go into town. While he is there Sam goes to the library and meets Miss Turner, the librarian who helps him. While exploring his mountain he meets an old lady picking strawberries, and is forced to follow her, or give up his sectrent of his hidden life. He escapes, and runs back to his new home, with some experience under his belt. |
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| ⚫ | Later, he sees many hunters in the fall. As the summer passes his skills and knowledge of the mountains and of survival grow by leaps and bounds. He impressively learns to live off the land not only eating small game and deer but also a wide variety of edible plants and nuts. He makes clothes, bedding, and other useful things from deer hide and rabbit fur. |
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| ⚫ | Sam also has many animal companions in his wilderness house, which is inside a tree that he hollowed out himself. Eventually he makes friends with a man that he calls Bando, because Sam mistakes him at first for an escaped convict of some sort, when it turns out Bando is a professor of English. Sam fishes and traps animals for food. Early on he retrieves a baby [[peregrine falcon]] and names her Frightful. He teaches Frightful to hunt for both of them and they become best friends. He lives a free life in the wilderness for more than a year. In addition, he traps deer and encounters tourists during his time in the forest. |
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Durring the winter, his dad finds him. Sam, Bando, and his dad all enjoy a wilderness christmas dinner. After winter Sam finds himself carving out a nearby tree as a guess house. and he asks himself, that isnt this the exact opposite of why he set out in the first place? isn't that ruining the beauty of the wilderness? but he doesn't have time to contemplate how this would affect his life. He hears his dad, and then his mother, and as it turned out his dad came back with his mother, and all the rest of his family. The family immediatly starts building a house, of which Sam is outraged, but can do very little to stop. |
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The differences in the movie and the novel are very large and noticable. |
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== Sequels == |
== Sequels == |
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Revision as of 08:56, 17 July 2007
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | ISBN 0140348107 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Followed by | On the Far Side of the Mountain |
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My Side of the Mountain is a 1959 book by Jean Craighead George about a boy who learns about nature and himself. The book won the Newbery Honor Award and was adapted into a 1969 movie.
Set in the Catskill Mountains near Delhi, New York, My Side of the Mountain tells the fictional account of how Sam Gribley survives in the wilderness of upstate New York with only a penknife, an axe, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and flint and steel. George's descriptions of the flora and fauna and how Sam uses them to not only to survive but to live quite comfortably, are very detailed.
Plot Summary
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Sam left New York in May. Sam had a penknife, a ball of cord, and ax, and $40, which he had saved from selling magazine subscriptions. He also had some flint and steel which he had bought at a chinese store in the city.
on his first night Sam gets on a train north of New York in search of the catskills, which house his families abandoned and overgrown farm which had been in his father's side of the family. He hitchhikes to the Catskills, and spends a lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structure, that consists of a hemlock bow and a stump) He had fished 5 trout, but as it turned out he couldn't eat them for he couldnt get a spark going, do to bad wind conditions.
In the morning he climbs up a hill and finds a small cottage not 100 feet form his tortured camp. He runs down to there, and bangs on the door. When an old man (as he later learns his name is bill)he asks if he could cook his fish. He learns how to properly make a fire, and then leaves.
Later on he moves on to living in a partially dead hemlock tree that he had burned and dug the rotten insides out of. After he establishes a house, he decides to go into town. While he is there Sam goes to the library and meets Miss Turner, the librarian who helps him. While exploring his mountain he meets an old lady picking strawberries, and is forced to follow her, or give up his sectrent of his hidden life. He escapes, and runs back to his new home, with some experience under his belt.
Later, he sees many hunters in the fall. As the summer passes his skills and knowledge of the mountains and of survival grow by leaps and bounds. He impressively learns to live off the land not only eating small game and deer but also a wide variety of edible plants and nuts. He makes clothes, bedding, and other useful things from deer hide and rabbit fur.
Sam also has many animal companions in his wilderness house, which is inside a tree that he hollowed out himself. Eventually he makes friends with a man that he calls Bando, because Sam mistakes him at first for an escaped convict of some sort, when it turns out Bando is a professor of English. Sam fishes and traps animals for food. Early on he retrieves a baby peregrine falcon and names her Frightful. He teaches Frightful to hunt for both of them and they become best friends. He lives a free life in the wilderness for more than a year. In addition, he traps deer and encounters tourists during his time in the forest.
Durring the winter, his dad finds him. Sam, Bando, and his dad all enjoy a wilderness christmas dinner. After winter Sam finds himself carving out a nearby tree as a guess house. and he asks himself, that isnt this the exact opposite of why he set out in the first place? isn't that ruining the beauty of the wilderness? but he doesn't have time to contemplate how this would affect his life. He hears his dad, and then his mother, and as it turned out his dad came back with his mother, and all the rest of his family. The family immediatly starts building a house, of which Sam is outraged, but can do very little to stop.
The differences in the movie and the novel are very large and noticable.
Sequels
The novel had two sequels, On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain.
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