Dogsong Book Report
Seth
In the story Dogsong, the main character, Russel Suskit, is a14 year old Inuit Native American that is living out in an Eskimo village and wants to get away from his life in the village and takes a dog sled team to get away from everyone and his modern life and to find his own song of himself.
He decided to go on this long journey after his father sent him to an old man’s house to learn something from him. His name was Oogruk, and he had to tell an old story of his to Russel.
In Oogruk’s story, he says that in the past the Inuit had a song, that the song was in them and that it was them; but the song is now gone forever. He told him how people came into their village and took their song away and told them about hell. First the villagers started laughing because they didn’t understand what hell was. Then they explained that they should stop their singing and dancing and their song because the “demons from hell would strip their meat off”. So they gave up their songs. This was Russel’s quest to find the songs again. He needs to travel North without a gun or snowmobile, and use a dog team that Oogruk let him borrow with a spear and bow and arrows as his weapons.
The next day, Russel started practicing hunting the old way with bow and arrows for some birds, but it took time because he didn’t understand what he was doing wrong. He couldn’t get any birds, but later in the story he found out he needed to use his mind. He needed to attack with his arrow at the birds heart.
So he sets off North with some food, his bow and arrows, a spear, and his dogsled team. He starts getting the hang of hunting things, when he can find any. A while later while he was on his journey, they run very low on food, and he and his dogs get very tired and hungry so he has to hunt and try to get meat and fat from an animal for them to stay warm and for them to have energy.
While on the journey, he starts having strange dreams. One of them has a woman in it, and an older man, who had a quest of killing a giant mammoth. Then the next day, he comes across a pregnant woman freezing to death on the ground. Whether he can save her from freezing to death and being able to feed her as well as him and his dogs, and whether Russel finds his song is up to you to find out, by reading the book.
Critique: The book has a very good plot and setting and the story moves at a decent pace throughout the story, even though it does get kind of boring now and then; and confusing with the whole song thing and all of the Inuit details that they talk about. The book is pretty good, and I would recommend the book to people who have read Gary Paulsen’s other books and people who like the outdoors and like being outside. It would have been a little more exciting if there was an enemy of Russel’s out on his journey, along with the conflicts he had. Overall, this was a pretty good realistic fiction story by a great author, Gary Paulsen.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
my fiction story
The Great Space Adventure
The year is 2035 and a crew of astronauts are in the middle of space. Captain Jones and his crew are in a shuttle trying to study more about space and get farther than any other shuttle has reached, so they can collect far more data than they have so far. All was going well, until a co-pilot noticed a small dot on the radar, heading straight towards them. He then informed the Captain, who took little notice, because he was busy helping a new crew member collect data. All of a sudden a giant crash noise scared everyone to their feet. The shuttle shimmied and shook. The Captain immediately went up front to where the co-pilot was. He urgently asked,” What just happened?!”
The co-Pilot, whose name was Frank Steven in an upset voice said in an upset voice, “I told you there was a blip on the radar coming straight towards us, but you took no notice! Now there’s probably a giant hole straight through the ship!”
Captain Jones glanced down and saw a blinking red light. This was the low fuel warning light. The fuel gauge read almost empty and it was decreasing by the minute. They were about to run out of fuel . Jones glanced up and saw a mysterious dark green planet that he had never seen before. They were about to crash. They radioed back to earth so the control room would be informed on what was going on.
The astronauts got into this situation after they had collided with an asteroid flying very fast. The asteroid hit the most vulnerable part of the ship, the fuel tanks. Gases began spilling out and floating around in space in little blobs. At first the astronauts were unsure of what happened, because everything happened so fast. The captain figured out what the damage was after he checked the fuel tanks.
Captian Jones gave a loud call out to all of the crew members. He said “Hey guys, looks like were about to land on a planet I’ve never seen before; get ready to land!” Immediately the crew scrambled about trying to get everything ready to land the shuttle. They knew it was going to be pretty rough, and if they weren’t prepared there was no way they would make it. It was just then when the shuttle started making strange noises and the crew knew , that the landing or crash was coming soon, very soon. They began struggling to get strapped in after they had prepared everything else for landing.
All of them were prepared, including the captain, except for Jake Earles, who was still struggling to clean up the lab he had set up while studying rocks from the moon, which they were looking for rescources they could use for on earth for fuels. He was still unstrapped when the ship began getting pulled into the atmosphere of the mysterious planet. They could tell that the gravity of this planet was far stronger than the gravity of earth’s, because they were falling at an extremely fast pace. The Captain called out, “Impact in less than 10 seconds!” Jake started really struggling then. At the last second,he managed to get one side of his straps buckled. The impact of the ship was very rough, so rough that Jake was swung side to side, and ran into a bar near his seat. He hit the bar so hard that he broke his arm on impact.
A while later, after they were all calm again after the landing, they decided to look around. This planet was like none other. Everything was different compared to other planets they have discovered. It had wierd trees, and some thick black stuff in little holes here and there. They were astonished that it had plant life, and one pulled off a leaf off of one of these strange plants.
“How weird, some black thick liquid is coming out of the stem where I pulled it off the plant!” The others gathered around and examined it. They were all shocked. One of them scooped up some liquid from the leaf, and smelled it. It smelled like a type of fuel! They then started walking around and kept finding little bits of sheet metal and such. Finally, they came upon a large space droid that NASA probably used for space exploration. You could tell that something malfunctioned, and they had no clue where the bot went. They took off some important metal sheets that they could probably use to repair the shuttle tanks, all they needed was a powerful fuel source that could get the metal on the tanks welded together, and some fuel to run it too.
Then one of the crewmembers that smelled the black fluid remembered and exclaimed, “What if that black stuff that we found could help repair and power the ship?”
The Captain replied,” That is a great idea, let’s go find out if the black fluid is flammable.”
They grabbed another leaf and put a spark by it. The flame burst into flames and almost scalded the crewmember’s hand who was holding the leaf because it burned so quickly.
Soon enough, they had the tanks full with black fluid and the tanks welded shut with some black fluid to take back to earth as a sample. They tried starting the shuttle, it easily and instantly fired up, sounding better than ever. Since this is in the future, the shuttle hovered up and started flying to earth at a fast speed, so fast that the captain could hardly control the shuttle.
Not too long later, they were all back at earth announcing that they had discovered a new planet and a new fuel source that was more powerful than anything that they had ever had before. They showed scientists the fuel, and after a few months, they were back on their way to that same planet again to find more of the source.
The year is 2035 and a crew of astronauts are in the middle of space. Captain Jones and his crew are in a shuttle trying to study more about space and get farther than any other shuttle has reached, so they can collect far more data than they have so far. All was going well, until a co-pilot noticed a small dot on the radar, heading straight towards them. He then informed the Captain, who took little notice, because he was busy helping a new crew member collect data. All of a sudden a giant crash noise scared everyone to their feet. The shuttle shimmied and shook. The Captain immediately went up front to where the co-pilot was. He urgently asked,” What just happened?!”
The co-Pilot, whose name was Frank Steven in an upset voice said in an upset voice, “I told you there was a blip on the radar coming straight towards us, but you took no notice! Now there’s probably a giant hole straight through the ship!”
Captain Jones glanced down and saw a blinking red light. This was the low fuel warning light. The fuel gauge read almost empty and it was decreasing by the minute. They were about to run out of fuel . Jones glanced up and saw a mysterious dark green planet that he had never seen before. They were about to crash. They radioed back to earth so the control room would be informed on what was going on.
The astronauts got into this situation after they had collided with an asteroid flying very fast. The asteroid hit the most vulnerable part of the ship, the fuel tanks. Gases began spilling out and floating around in space in little blobs. At first the astronauts were unsure of what happened, because everything happened so fast. The captain figured out what the damage was after he checked the fuel tanks.
Captian Jones gave a loud call out to all of the crew members. He said “Hey guys, looks like were about to land on a planet I’ve never seen before; get ready to land!” Immediately the crew scrambled about trying to get everything ready to land the shuttle. They knew it was going to be pretty rough, and if they weren’t prepared there was no way they would make it. It was just then when the shuttle started making strange noises and the crew knew , that the landing or crash was coming soon, very soon. They began struggling to get strapped in after they had prepared everything else for landing.
All of them were prepared, including the captain, except for Jake Earles, who was still struggling to clean up the lab he had set up while studying rocks from the moon, which they were looking for rescources they could use for on earth for fuels. He was still unstrapped when the ship began getting pulled into the atmosphere of the mysterious planet. They could tell that the gravity of this planet was far stronger than the gravity of earth’s, because they were falling at an extremely fast pace. The Captain called out, “Impact in less than 10 seconds!” Jake started really struggling then. At the last second,he managed to get one side of his straps buckled. The impact of the ship was very rough, so rough that Jake was swung side to side, and ran into a bar near his seat. He hit the bar so hard that he broke his arm on impact.
A while later, after they were all calm again after the landing, they decided to look around. This planet was like none other. Everything was different compared to other planets they have discovered. It had wierd trees, and some thick black stuff in little holes here and there. They were astonished that it had plant life, and one pulled off a leaf off of one of these strange plants.
“How weird, some black thick liquid is coming out of the stem where I pulled it off the plant!” The others gathered around and examined it. They were all shocked. One of them scooped up some liquid from the leaf, and smelled it. It smelled like a type of fuel! They then started walking around and kept finding little bits of sheet metal and such. Finally, they came upon a large space droid that NASA probably used for space exploration. You could tell that something malfunctioned, and they had no clue where the bot went. They took off some important metal sheets that they could probably use to repair the shuttle tanks, all they needed was a powerful fuel source that could get the metal on the tanks welded together, and some fuel to run it too.
Then one of the crewmembers that smelled the black fluid remembered and exclaimed, “What if that black stuff that we found could help repair and power the ship?”
The Captain replied,” That is a great idea, let’s go find out if the black fluid is flammable.”
They grabbed another leaf and put a spark by it. The flame burst into flames and almost scalded the crewmember’s hand who was holding the leaf because it burned so quickly.
Soon enough, they had the tanks full with black fluid and the tanks welded shut with some black fluid to take back to earth as a sample. They tried starting the shuttle, it easily and instantly fired up, sounding better than ever. Since this is in the future, the shuttle hovered up and started flying to earth at a fast speed, so fast that the captain could hardly control the shuttle.
Not too long later, they were all back at earth announcing that they had discovered a new planet and a new fuel source that was more powerful than anything that they had ever had before. They showed scientists the fuel, and after a few months, they were back on their way to that same planet again to find more of the source.
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