how would you feel if your company, pet and friend was taken from you?
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How would you feel if your company, pet and friend was taken from you?. That is how Sam Gribley felt in On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Sam Gribley is a young, smart and adventurous boy. He lives in the Catskill mountains where he ran away from his parents. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
How would you feel if your company, pet and friend was taken from you?
That is how Sam Gribley felt in On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean
Craighead George
Sam Gribley is a young, smart and adventurous boy
He lives in the Catskill mountains where he ran away from his parents
His Peregrine Falcon, Frightful, is his friend, pet, company and she hunts
for him.
Alice is his sister that now lives in the wild with him
She is smart, generous and adventurous
A physics teacher nick-named Bando comes and visits Sam every once in a
while
He is high maintenance, but outdoorsy.
One day the park officer pulls up and takes Frightful, an endangered
species, away from Sam
Sam tries everything he can to get her back…
NO LUCK!
He now can no longer get food for himself
He is also depressed and lonely
But he makes a sling and practices to get food
Just as things are getting back to normal, Alice leaves
She goes looking for a new refuge
Bando and Sam set out to find her
She leaves hints to where she is going
Sam knows that an acorn on top of a rock is Alice’s “signature”
After many days of looking and hiking, they finally find her
They also find illegal raptor sellers and Sam sees the man that took Frightful
Frightful is dead
He is dead!
The cops come and arrest them
But then… Sam sees Frightful flying above them
He is alive!
Alice saw Frightful earlier and cut her free from her leashes
There will now be wild Peregrine Falcons on the mountains again
Sam learned to never stop believing
By Philip StollsteimerPeriod 6 reading