East of the Mountains By David Gutterson :: essays research papers

This Book was written by David Guterson. He wrote another tidings which Idont know much about called Snow move on Cedars. But he wrote thisbook which I was interested in certain parts of it, such as his ideal of wantingto commit suicide, a drifter who gave him whatever help on lessening the pain,and when he talked about his pass of when he was recruited from Camp Hale. This was a good book in my opinion.This book was set in the season of fall and it was around 1997. In thebook he talked of his past when he was a little kid with his dad and when hewas growing up meeting his wife. The area was a country type place in a richapple growing region. In the republic of Washington were he goes to manymountains in the surrounding area. This was the setting of the book.There were many characters in this book. The main character of thisbook was Ben Givens a seventy- three class old retired heart surgeon. Thewhole story was set around him. Then there was his family which he talkedabout, Rac hel who was his wife which who had pass away before him, Reneehis daughter, Chris his grandson, Emma his granddaughter, Aidan his brother,and Wright Givens his father. Also he had two hunting dogs which werebrow and white Brittanies named Rex and Tristan. On his hunting trip werehe had planed on committing suicide he had met many people. A young gallus who really get along with each other, a drifter who gave him somemarijuana to ease the pain of his cancer, a veterinarian, a rancher and amigrant worker.The drumhead of this story starts when Ben wakes up from anothernight of suffering from colon cancer. This day he had planned on his huntingtrip that would ease his suffering. He had everything constitute in the morningand he made it seem like he was just going on a hunting trip. Right when hestarts his move around he gets into a car wreck destroying his car. But he is pickedup by a couple that takes him to place that Ben thinks he can rent a car from. When he finds he cant and is trying to hitch a ride he meets a man that giveshim some medical marijuana to help ease his pain. Ben gives up and goesto hunt in the near by mountains.He started out hunting the chukars with his hunting dogs.