Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada

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” Wood Grouse on a High promontory overlooking Canada”

Is war a traumatizing experience? Is it easy to get over? Is it possible that war can change your personality? We find these answers in the text, where we deal with two brothers. Gary, the older one, who’s been in a war. In the text, we also deal with Gary’s younger brother, who is the first-person narrator of the short story. We don’t get a name for the younger brother, only the subject ‘’buddy’’. The short story “Wood grouse on a High promontory overlooking Canada”, was published in 1996 by David Guterson.

The short story revolves around two brothers, who decides to take on a hiking trip from the mountains located in the northern America close to the Canadian borderline, towards the mountains in Canada “I went up there with my brother, Gary -up on the side of Goat Peak: a high promontory overlooking Canada... at Wall Lake.”(ll. 1-3 p.1). already, in the beginning, we get to know where the story is taking place, and that they are out in the