The Real West Marginal Way

I, as well, recognized many of the places that Hugo mentioned and it was fun to be able to picture the places that the author was describing, and picture them vividly. There were some things that i found startling, like the drowning of the dogs furing the Great Depression due to a lack of funds for food and the fact that the boys fished through the porta-potty instead of the lake becase it made no difference. This author really painted a better picture of what living during the Depression was like because he used those personal ad very real images (much like the table of rice cookers and pictures of naked women in the wood-knots of the cabin walls). These images bring the reader to the setting, as if they are actually there and sharing a more intimate experience that if you were to simply relay the play-by-play of the story. The story reminded me of the time I went fishing on the Puget Sound with a former boyfriend of mine, and we couldnt catch any crabs, so we ended up coming home with a few useless cod and a dogfish that looked like a mini shark that wanted to eat us for dinner. For future advice, never catch dogfish...they dont taste so great on a burger.