The pilot starts complaining of aches in his shoulder and stomach, which distracts Brian from his thoughts. He remembers that she gave him a new hatchet as a gift for the journey, which he is wearing on a loop attached to his belt. Brian feels angry at his mother, but somewhat guilty for refusing to talk to her in the car on the way to the airport. The reader learns that Brian lives in the New York City area but is on his way to visit his father in Northern Canada, since his father now has summer visitation rights. Brian is briefly distracted when the pilot gives him a turn at the plane’s controls, but he soon falls into miserable contemplation of the divorce again. Brian also hints at knowing what he calls “The Secret” about his mother, which his father does not know. Brian is consumed with thoughts of his parents’ divorce and the way it has torn his life apart, and he is unable to stop thinking about it even when flying over the beautiful landscape. A thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson is flying in a small plane over the Canadian wilderness, with only a quiet middle-aged pilot for company.
0 kommentar(er)
