Q2 Blogpost#1 People of the Wolf

People of the Wolf
W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Historical fiction
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In the first chapters we are introduced to Runs In Light who is a young hunter who ends up sacrificing love and comfort to follow a mystical Wolf vision, he then came to be called the Wolf Dreamer.  Runs In Light's tribe have been forced to live further south near the mountains and the giant ice sheet covering most of the land. There was no mammoths  caribou or healthy grass there. They were forced there by an unknown kind of people which the call the Others. The Others had slowly taken Light's tribes ground and forced them into this uninhabitable grounds. The tribe is starving and they have already gone so far as killing their own hunting dogs and the bear dogs (the dogs that warn the tribe if a bear is near). They live on almost nothing, one night Runs In Light hears sounds from outside the skin tents. He crawls out an climbs up a snow covered hill to find a wolf gnawing on the carcass of his mother (who died recently of starvation). He knows that Father Sun (the sun) does not value hunters killing hunters but the tribe was starving and this could be their only way to survive. He throws his spear (which is the traditional weapon of the tribe) and it hits the wolf in the ribs, not enough to kill it instantly, but enough for it to soon die. Runs In Light pursues the traces of blood that the wolf spills as it tries to flee. When Runs In Light finally catches up to the wolf it is laying dying in the snow. He kills the wolf thanking it for it's life and thanking Father Sun. To have enough energy to drag the wolf back to the tribe after the storm he eats the heart of the wolf. As he drags the wolf carcass into a cave he passes out. In his dreams he meets the wolf he killed who tells him that if they return to the north towards the Others they will all die but if they continue south to the great glacier there would be a path through the glacier to a place with grass, trees, mammoths, and caribou. Runs In Light returns to the tribe some days later with the wolfs blood painted in different patterns on his face imitating a wolfs. He tells them about the dream and everyone could see that he had had a dream a holy dream through his eyes. Though the shaman of the tribe called Crow Caller refused to acknowledge this dream since only shamans could get prophesies in their dreams. He said he would curse all the people that wanted to travel with Runs In Light instead of travelling north with him. Dancing Fox, a beautiful young woman who secretly loved Run In Light wanted to travel with him, though her father (before he died) had given her away to marry the old shaman. She was forced to part with Run In Light and was continued to be punished every time she had looked at Run In Light by Crow Caller. Many hunters choose to travel with Run In Light because they knew there was hope their and only death if they traveled north to the Others. Run In Light promised Dancing Fox that he would leave a trail for her if she manages to escape Crow Caller's group. Dancing Fox manages to escape for a while as she starts to freely run in the snow storm, she is confused about where she is but manages to find a cave where she hides. Though after a while Raven Hunter ( Run In Light's twin brother) finds her and forces her back to Crow Caller. Though he promises to protect her because he had secretly loved her for a long time. When they return Crow Caller is furious and cast many "curses" on her even though most know that his powers and dreams had disappeared for a long time. Crow Caller wanted to kill her though Raven Hunter convinced him that she would suffer more if she was life and that death was the "easy way out". 

Response Section
What do you think about what you have read?
The book I am reading is challenging and it does take a while to read because of the words they use for things and names ( for example the Wind Woman, you could easily mistake it as someones name or the wind) the book keeps you guessing about what they are talking about. 
Has your recent reading fulfilled your expectations?
Yes, I though the book would be challenging and I am happy to know that it is. 
What do you expect for your continued reading?
I expect that Dancing Fox will find a way to escape Crow Caller and to find Runs In Light and is group. 
How satisfied are you with what you have read?
I read as i planned since my book is about 400 pages long around 80 pages would be about the amount to read if I am planning on making 6 blogposts. 

Passage Section
"Father Sun looks away when hunger forces hunter to stalk hunter. What had they done that He would punish them so?" ( page 13)
This passage reveals more of the tribes beliefs and how they actually respect other hunting animals. I really like this passage because it the first phrase comes right out of the tribes sayings and the second on out of Runs In Light's thoughts.