FROM WOODSONG By Gary Paulsen Analysis by Valerie Cuello, Step 8 Yellow
Setting: The setting takes place in Alaska in the deep woods
Characters: Boy (doesn’t give his name), dogs and light source/tree
Plot:
Exposition: A boy and his dog are training for the Iditarod, a dog-sled race in Alaska
Rising Action: One night they are out in the woods, and the boy decides to rest.
Climax: When him and his dog awaken, they trek on, the boy with a broken headlight, come across a strange light.
Falling action: He convinces himself that the light is a ghost.
Resolution: He becomes curious and slowly approaches it only to find it is a tree that sucked up phosphorus.
Theme: I can find in this story that “things may not always be what they seem.” This applies because the boy thought that the tree was a ghost, and it turns out it wasn’t.
Mood: Suspense
Tone: Curious and informal
Voice: 3rd person
Conflict: The conflict was an internal conflict because the boy scared himself into thinking the tree was a ghost.
Man vs Nature: when he believed that everything conspired to his evil, among those dogs who were desperate
Man vs Supernatural: when he felt the presence of something that was not normal like a ghost
Ending by me:
Another ending is that he had not rested in the tree where everything happened and that he would have continued on his way so as not to run over with supernatural things.
In "Glow in the Dark" why does Paulsen run his dogs at night without a light?
because his lamp head goes out
In "A Glow in the Dark" what does the strange shape turn out to be?
a tree stump
What race did Gary Paulsen race in?
Iditarod
explain to me the setting.
It was dark hasn't snowed yet Gary and his dogs have been running all morning.
Theme of the story: things may not always be what they seem.
