Song Of The Trail Sparknotes

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Song of the Trail is by the author Mabel Earp Cason. Pacific Press Association published this book in in 1953, with 241. It is fiction and has a little drama. This book is about two boys, David and Diego, who go on the trail in Arizona with Jess Cameron’s sheep. They help him along the way and face many problems, even when they have to lead the sheep themselves. Song of the Trail takes place in the humid deserts of Arizona. This book is in third person. David and Diego are the main characters, but some others are Doroteo, Jess Cameron, Pascual, a little dog named Bueno, and a crow called Timbird. David’s dad, Jess Cameron, has a flock of sheep, that for total of seven months go on a trail. The only thing different this time, is that two …show more content…

They followed some bees, then stalked a herd of deer. Then they took a look around and saw a lush, green area of grass on a hill. They walked for what seemed like milesad came upon a miniature spring. They headed back, but got lost, they quickly found themselves at the stream, where they were supposed to be in two days time. After a while an inebriated man showed up, with a little dog cowering behind him. He asked them some questions, the dog being a starved poor thing went for a dead rabbit the man dropped. The man grabbed the dog by the scruff and started to smack the dog. Diego, taking the place of the hero, instantaneously grabbed the dog, and took the dog. The man bewildered tried to take the dog, but was denied the access, he left leaving the dog in the boys care. Finally they were down with the journey, one day on break, a huge storm hit. A stray strike of lightning hit a tree with Doroteo under it. It killed him instantly, so he felt no pain. The flock of sheep however needed a shepard and Diego needed someone to take care of him until …show more content…

She went through the story explaining the life of a shepherd, and what they sacrifice for their flock. I believe the writing was difficult. It had very poor grammar, and was hard to understand what the characters were trying to say. It also had a lot of spanish in it, sometimes making the reader confused of what the word meant. If a author does this they should put a star next to the word, and at the bottom of the page put the word in the designated language. The emotional description in this book was really bad in some spots, like when they got lost Diego just says “I think maybe we are lost, no?”. It was said emotionlessly, only saying that he was weary, but you could of had him say that bit a little more worriedly. They were lost in the middle of the desert and could be anywhere, they could have traveled the wrong way. He should’ve sounded more scared or concerned. Beside that it was pretty open minded and easy to understand, which is good, not all authors write like that. Well even though this book had a lot of small conflicts leading up to a bigger problem, it was still pretty dull. It was dull, because the emotion in this book was so limited. Would I recommend this book, ya sure. It might’ve not been the greatest book ever, but other people seemed to really like

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