the woods runner

Samuel is a young adult that grew up in the woods. He became a part of the woods and the woods became a part of him. He felt more secure in the woods than he did in his own cabin with his parents and the other people in the settlement. I will be analyzing how Samuel as a person develops threw out the events in the story.

In the beginning of the book he is just a normal settler’s child. He hunts, dose chores and helps around the settlement. He hunts mostly and when he goes hunting he brings back food for the whole clearing. The other settlements help with his chores for the food he cannot do the chores and go hunting all day. He feels more at home in the woods he loves hunting and tracking. He has to go deeper into the woods every time he goes in to them. This is because the deer and other game is not venturing near the clearing for fear of being shot.

When his parents get kidnapped by the British and the Indians he changes in so many ways. Then he gets hit in the head with a tomahawk and almost dies. But that is not as a set back as the tragedy that befalls him and Annie when Annie’s family gets massacred by the hessians.

Near the end of the book Adam goes to New York and rescues his parents.  His fathers with the rest of the men are held up in an old sugar factory like pigs in a pen. His mother is a maid in a house and is treated better. She brings his father food every night but the guards take the good things out first.

In the end when they are running from New York Samuel won’t even let them talk till they are 15 mile from New York and even then they have to whisper then when they are almost to Philadelphia they are crossing the road and they run into a British patrol and Samuel shots the caption but they are five other men and a bunch of American solider shot the men just before they get shot.  In the end they get to Philadelphia safe and live there. There was much housing available because of the war a lot of people just up and left because of the war.