Farley_Mowat__Lost_in_the_Barrens

Farley Mowat: Lost in the Barrens Lost in the Barrens By: Farley Mowat The Sahara Desert, the Rain Forest, the Arctic, and of course, the Barrens…all places of isolation that drive man to the breakpoint. Each particular place has the ability to capture a mans dreams and turn them into a nightmare. Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat is a prime example of how a person goes through a true transition from soul searching to self-actualization. Mr. Mowat brings the reader full circle emotionally with the feelings of pain, anguish, happiness, compassion and fear with the boys. This gives the reader a true sense of the compressing forces inflicted upon the boys. In addition to the characters, Farley uses the plot which realistically encounters many problems in which Jamie and Awasin must overcome. Finally, the background which gives the reader a descriptive mental picture of the barrenland encompassing the long stretches of a seemingly endless abyss to the raging rapids that dominates the boys. These three tools drive the reader to pursue on! to the next page and understand clearly the effects of isolation on man and why if not accepted in its purest state will lost, barrens, boys, jamie, through, time, awasin, go, way, upon, reader, out, men, forced, farley, caribou, after, back, strength, seemed, north, man, leg, land, gives, decided, come, winter, weather, try, trip, soon, page, one, old, new, loneliness, just, jamie’s, home, great, food, eskimo, deer, days, canoe, without, wilderness, transition, times