The Big Sky is a story about Boone Caudill’s journey of becoming a man. He is trying to follow his uncle’s path. Boone wants the same “freedom” his uncle has--becoming a mountain man, trapping animals, and just living on his own away from his father. In the book, on page 362, Boone’s mother tells him that he reminds her of his own father. Boone comes to a point in his life where he has to reflect back to see what kind of man he has become and what kind of father he will become.
In this passage Boone talks to his mother about his father’s death. Boone’s mother tells him it was “phthisic” that killed his father. Cora, Boone’s aunt, tells him that it wasn’t the sinning that killed his father. Boone is still reluctant to accept the idea that his …show more content…
She makes it apparent that his father died of phthisic, which is a lung disease. This is important to the story because throughout the whole book there are many diseases that follow Boone through his journey across the country, so it was ironic that with all the diseases around this particular one killed his father. Although Boone is convinced that God should have taken his father much sooner for the way he treated Boone and because he believes his father was such a terrible person. His mother explains that through all of the sinning his father had done, God did not take him for that. She then tells Boone he reminds her of all of the same qualities Boone shares with his father. This scares Boone as he goes silent and ponders this idea. Boone doesn’t want to be anything like his father--although Boone starts to realize he was not the best father to his own children and he may even begin to believe he is in fact like his father. Boone questions the man the country has made him, and wondered if leaving his father even changed the way Boone has become in his journey through manhood. This passage connects to the rest of the story because Boone has spent over twenty years trying to become his own man and he has turned out to be a lot like his father. The reader may have forgotten what started this journey for manhood, and A.B. Guthrie reiterates to them what Boone was running from the whole
In this passage Boone talks to his mother about his father’s death. Boone’s mother tells him it was “phthisic” that killed his father. Cora, Boone’s aunt, tells him that it wasn’t the sinning that killed his father. Boone is still reluctant to accept the idea that his …show more content…
She makes it apparent that his father died of phthisic, which is a lung disease. This is important to the story because throughout the whole book there are many diseases that follow Boone through his journey across the country, so it was ironic that with all the diseases around this particular one killed his father. Although Boone is convinced that God should have taken his father much sooner for the way he treated Boone and because he believes his father was such a terrible person. His mother explains that through all of the sinning his father had done, God did not take him for that. She then tells Boone he reminds her of all of the same qualities Boone shares with his father. This scares Boone as he goes silent and ponders this idea. Boone doesn’t want to be anything like his father--although Boone starts to realize he was not the best father to his own children and he may even begin to believe he is in fact like his father. Boone questions the man the country has made him, and wondered if leaving his father even changed the way Boone has become in his journey through manhood. This passage connects to the rest of the story because Boone has spent over twenty years trying to become his own man and he has turned out to be a lot like his father. The reader may have forgotten what started this journey for manhood, and A.B. Guthrie reiterates to them what Boone was running from the whole