In "My Side of the Mountain," Sam Gribley runs away to escape the constraints of city life and to seek adventure in the wilderness. He desires independence and wants to connect with nature, following in the footsteps of his ancestors who lived off the land. Sam aims to prove that he can survive on his own, using his resourcefulness and skills learned from books and observation. His journey is about self-discovery and embracing a simpler, more authentic way of life.
A group of mountain ranges that run side by side is called a cordillera.
cordillera
Cordillera
He did not want to be a clerk in his brother's store.
He did not want to be a clerk in his brother's store.
They run through Canada and the states of:MontanaIdahoWyomingUtahColoradoNew Mexico
He was 16 when he ran away from home because he did not wish to be a clerk in his brother's store.
Sam will run, and run, and run.
It was bad enough that he thought he had to run away from home at 16.
Kitty ran away because her mom had went on a date with another guy.
. The book is about Sam Gribley, a 12-year-old boy who intensely dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York City apartment with his eight brothers and sisters. He decides to run away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains to live in the wilderness. The novel begins in the middle of Sam's story, with Sam huddled in his treehouse home in the forest during a severe blizzard. The reader meets Frightful, Sam's pet peregrine falcon, and The Baron, a weasel that Sam befriends. Roughly the first 80 percent of the novel is Sam's reminiscences about how he came to be in a home made out of a hollowed-out tree in a terrible snowstorm, while the remainder of the novel is a traditional linear narrative about what happens after the snowstorm.
Bill is secretly hoping that Red Chief ran away/will run away, and he won't have to deal with him anymore.