- Dave Conroy was in the forest because he was trapping animals. He did it for a profession.
- The readers knew he wouldn’t make it he couldn’t open his fire starter
- He could have: a) stop for the day b) should have waited longer to go out trapping c)make a fire
- Exposition: first two paragraphs complicating incident: getting stuck in the forest crisis 1: falling in a river crisis 2: cabin is burnt down crisis 3: can’t open lighter climax: he sits down to take a break but falls asleep denouement: wakes up hallucinating
- The setting was a forest, cold but in the summer. This affects everything the character must do to stay alive. As well as the theme of always go with what you learned and don’t let your pride affect your actions
- The white cabin: heaven
Eternal: forever
Immobility: cannot move
Opaque: not see through
Reverberation: continuation effect
Momentum: speed and power
Cadaverous: dead body
Congregated: gathered in mass
Inundation: abundance of things/people
Beggared: reduce to poverty
Filched: steal in casual way