Drexton Robinson
Mrs.Baker
Language Arts
Gary Paulsen's Woodsong is a personal detailed account of his experiences competing in The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race held in Nome, Alaska. The Iditarod race is enduringly intense, affecting the participants both mentally and physically. Throughout the race, participants may feel sleep-deprived and experience hallucinations worse than an ordinary nightmare. On the day that Paulsen competes, he is one of the seventy-three mushers who finishes number forty-two. By the end of Woodsong, Paulsen has become a student of himself, the dogs, and the experience. With this in mind, Paulsen structures the first part of the work as brief vignettes. The novel lacks chronology but is infused with descriptions of his life in northern Minnesota working with his sled dogs. The experiences he gained living here helped to prepare him for the Iditarod race. For example, during his time in the woods, he …show more content…
It is in the second part of the book where we see these skills applied while he's running a seventeen-day race. While the first part of the book is not structured in terms of logically, the second part represents a chronological assessment of his thoughts and interactions with the dogs and the other participants of the race. Paulsen's
Woodsong is mainly a coming of age story from an adult perspective.
In Woodsong, a spare but thrilling autobiographical account of a series of adventures that changed his life, Gary Paulsen relates how he arrived at a new understanding of the beauty, violence, and mystery of the natural world when he began training and running a pack of sled dogs. Although clearly drawn from the details of his life in the Minnesota wilderness, Woodsong is a series of reflections on the changes that took place in Paulsen’s life rather than a day-to-day account presented in a chronological time frame. In the opening section, Paulsen watches helplessly from his sled as a doe is caught
Mrs.Baker
Language Arts
Gary Paulsen's Woodsong is a personal detailed account of his experiences competing in The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race held in Nome, Alaska. The Iditarod race is enduringly intense, affecting the participants both mentally and physically. Throughout the race, participants may feel sleep-deprived and experience hallucinations worse than an ordinary nightmare. On the day that Paulsen competes, he is one of the seventy-three mushers who finishes number forty-two. By the end of Woodsong, Paulsen has become a student of himself, the dogs, and the experience. With this in mind, Paulsen structures the first part of the work as brief vignettes. The novel lacks chronology but is infused with descriptions of his life in northern Minnesota working with his sled dogs. The experiences he gained living here helped to prepare him for the Iditarod race. For example, during his time in the woods, he …show more content…
It is in the second part of the book where we see these skills applied while he's running a seventeen-day race. While the first part of the book is not structured in terms of logically, the second part represents a chronological assessment of his thoughts and interactions with the dogs and the other participants of the race. Paulsen's
Woodsong is mainly a coming of age story from an adult perspective.
In Woodsong, a spare but thrilling autobiographical account of a series of adventures that changed his life, Gary Paulsen relates how he arrived at a new understanding of the beauty, violence, and mystery of the natural world when he began training and running a pack of sled dogs. Although clearly drawn from the details of his life in the Minnesota wilderness, Woodsong is a series of reflections on the changes that took place in Paulsen’s life rather than a day-to-day account presented in a chronological time frame. In the opening section, Paulsen watches helplessly from his sled as a doe is caught