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Paulsen's "Canyons": A Summary - Papers

Paulsen's "Canyons": A Summary

Canyons by Gary Paulsen is a book written about a young boy who finds a
skull on a camping trip and it seems to give him mental messages about
where he should go and what he should do. It all starts when Brannon goes
on a camping trip with his mom and her boyfriend. Brannon is having a bad
time and is not very social. When he is trying to go to sleep, he feels
something under his sleeping bag. When he finally gets it completely out
of the ground, he realizes it's a skull with a bullet hole in it's forehead.
Brannon hides the skull and takes it home with him. Later, he shows it to
an old and wise professor of his and together, they try to figure out what
happened to the person that ...

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after finding it in his closet, and listens as
the voice speaks to him. It wants to be returned to the Sacred Place. All
the memories from the canyons the Apache warrior has come to Brannon, as
though he experienced before, but hadn't. Once the skull is put in it's
scared place in Dog Canyon, both Brannon and the skull can rest. Brannon
starts to head home and is greeted by the police and his mother, who ask
for an explanation. Brannon explains the whole thing to them, and they
understand and appreciate him more. This book really explains the way that
the Apaches lived and how hard it was to be accepted by the tribe as a
'man.' I feel that the Apache boy, Coyote Runs, was who Brannon was in a
past life, and that is what the author is trying to get ...

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Added: 6/7/2007 01:12:28 AM
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