Accounts Settled: A Review
In the book, Accounts Settled, there is only one major character named
Gordon. Gordon is seventeen, six feet tall, and has the beginning of a beard.
The main setting is in a forest-filled valley that is a mile from Gordon's home.
The story does not give a specific date but the most logical time this story
takes place is in the winter during the early 1900s.
The inciting incident in the story is when Gordon's dad came down with
flu-pneumonia and Gordon must take his place in taking care of the trapline that
he had set up in the forest. The conflict of the story is internal and external
because Gordon had to face himself and nature. The rising action started when
Gordon had a sense of fear as he went into the valley. The, the porcupine stole
his food and Gordon was going to kill it but remembered an old woodsman tale
that it's bad luck to ill a porcupine. Gordon then goes to bed, hungry and it
took him awhile to fall asleep. He later......
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