First Arrow Day Dialectical Journal

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“Now he had the bird, but he never cleaned one, taking out the insides or gotten rid of the feathers, and he did not know were to start.” (Page 134)

The information that sentence contains is important to the story because, Brian cannot eat a bird with its feathers on. He does not want to have to eat the stuff like the heart and stomach. The insides are very nasty and smelly but if he does not get rid of them it will attract unwanted visitors. The last thing that Brian needs is a bobcat trying to get to his cave to eat the birds. Since he bird is what he eats in the story if he can not eat it then he will have a lot of dead birds lying around.

“First Arrow day-when he used thread from his tattered old of his windbreaker and some pitch from a stump to put slivers of feathers on a dry willow shaft and make a arrow fly correctly.” (Page 139) The information is important to Brian because the bow is his main way to get food. He uses it to kill the fish, birds, and rabbits. It is his most used tool to get food. With out it he might not of ever have gotten all of the
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It was a tornado!” (Page 145)

This is important to Brian because it shows it was his ability to recognize things. He only had a few seconds before the tornado hit so his he must not have time to cover his head and neck with his arms. If he had recognized it earlier he would have probably braced himself and Protected his tools more. Still it takes a lot to recognize a tornado. If he thought it was a rescue plane he would have stuck his head out and see blackness until the tornado hit. If he was thrown out of his shelter he would have died but the few in the few seconds he had before the tornado hit he grabbed the rock wall behind him.

“He fought impatience to get to the plane project and remembered sense, remembered what he learned. First food, because food made strength; then thought, then action.” (Page