Be sure to read Part Two for Tuesday's class (I'm including Ch.4 here as well, even though I told you to read it for last time). We'll have another quiz when you get to class, so consider some of the following ideas:
* What is the significance of her last name? Where did it come from, and why does she say "I looked it up in the dictionary and knew it was mine" (96).
* Why does she worry that the lawyer will think they're getting divorced for the wrong reasons? Why does she want to get divorced? Or does she?
* She calls the hike the "hardest thing I'd ever done," even though she recently lost her mother and suffered a divorce. What makes this harder, and why does it make "the other hardest things the the tiniest bit less hard" (95)?
* What does she learn from the other hikers she encounters on the trail? What basic information has she neglected? Could some of this information have saved her life?
* What does she learn is the most unexpected hardship of the trail? What could no amount of training or reading have truly prepared her for?
* What prevents her from quitting the trail when she finally convinces herself to catch the first bus to Alaska?
* What does the experience with the bull teach her about the PCT and about life itself?
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