blog #2

   The setting of this book was in the Obed Wild and Scenic River National Park. I would say this setting is important because, if the girls where living in a different area the story wouldn't make as much sense. Its a girl and her younger sister basically living alone in a trailer. Another setting to the story is the home they moved into when Mrs,Haskell and their father found them. These settings are important to the story because it makes up the characters personality. The woods are their home. They say the woods saw everything. If they were put in a different location it wouldn't be the same story.  When the girls moved into their new home the environment showed what love was. They experienced help which they didn't have before. If they were put in foster care they could have been separated. Their foster parents might have been mean. One of the biggest things for them they got to experience is love. This is something they never had before and knew what it felt like. They created a bond with their father, a figure they didn't know what was. When they moved from the woods they left their only home they had. The woods was a nightmare for them but it kept them at peace. This setting of the novel, the woods and their new home, is so important as it creates the characters. Because of the changes the girls faces it finally builds them to have a better life than they thought they would ever have.