Summary Of Spear Fish

On August 1803, Daniel Griffith, Will Griffith, and their Pa is building a cabin in the state of Ohio. Their Pa had bought land in a forest to build a cabin for the whole family. The two boys helped their Pa find good enough trees to have logs made for the cabin. As September rolled around, Pa had left on Old Ben to travel back to Pennsylvania to gather up the rest of the crew. Daniel and Will had four other siblings; Sarah, Abby, Zeke, and the new baby Josiah. Before Pa had left, he told the boys to work on the cabin and told him that he would be back in five weeks, six at the maximum. Also, he put Daniel in charge and Will had to mind his self. The days flew by one-by-one, and winter was slowly coming. They had plentiful food supplies to last them for six-to-eight weeks and a creek nearby for water. The cornmeal wasn’t cutting it for their stomachs, so Will decided to learn how to spear fish. Spearing was a difficult and patient job for Will, but he managed to catch
Also, I had put myself in the boy’s shoes to how they were willing to survive in the forest at their newly, unfinished cabin. Every three or four chapters the book was divided into months that gave a general idea of what may have happened during that time. In the beginning, Daniel watched his Pa chop down the big trees in the forest to make logs for the cabin and started to learn the basics of building (Leeuwen 8,10,11). After Pa had left for Pennsylvania, the boys had to defend for their selves and work on the cabin (Leeuwen 28,31). Will shaped a long stick into a spear to catch fish for dinner (Leeuwen 32). He was so serious catching a fish to have for dinner and wouldn’t stop until he caught one. The boys saw a rabbit hopping by them and Will tried to spear it, but the rabbit hopped away too fast. They got the idea to make a trap to trap rabbits and meant more food for them (Leeuwen