Sunday, August 3, 2014

What has happened to Miyax? How would you feel if you were in her situation?

The question isn't clear about what part of the novel it is asking about, so I'll answer the question based on the first thing that readers know has happened to Miyax to put her in a bad situation. When we are introduced to Miyax, she is lying on her stomach looking across a vast, frozen wasteland. It's six in the evening and getting darker, but Miyax is at least dressed for the extreme cold weather of the Alaskan wilderness; however, Miyax is in trouble. She has been lost for several days, and she is running out of food.

Miyax was lost. She had been lost without food for many sleeps on the North Slope of Alaska.

Miyax is in a bad situation because her location is not favorable for survival. It's hundreds of miles in any direction to any kind of more habitable location, and there are no roads that cross the area where she is at that she could use for guidance or easier traveling. Miyax is getting desperate for survival, so she has chosen to follow a pack of wolves in hopes of getting food from them.

and the very life in her body, its spark and warmth, depended upon these wolves for survival. And she was not so sure they would help.

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