USFS 1919

Maclean did not really catch my interest with his short story, "The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky." He was very repetive and only used very good descriptions throughout some of this story. I was impressed when he did use the occasional amount of description, mostly on places. I do not think he described people as well as places. There was only point in the book that I could relate to, and that was when he says, "When you look back at where you have been, it often seems as if you have never been there or even as if there were no such place." Pg. 165. I related to this because I see most everything from different perspectives. Also, I know what he is talking about it where as I have grown up in the mountains my whole life. I did not figure out any lesson or purpose of his story.