little house in the big woods part 1

LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS
chapter 1

                         Little house in the big woods is a novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I would like to explain a little part of this book. The first chapter explain about a family who lived in the middle forest without neighbour around them. The main character named Laura who called her father Pa and her mother Ma. She lived with her parents, her sister Mary and her baby sister Carrie. They lived in the Big Wood of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. The dark trees of Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. There were not people around them, but there were only wild animal among them. As a night when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed, she heard a wolf howled, then the wolf came nearer, and howled again. Laura believed that a wolf eat little girls. But she felt save because she had been inside and there was a bulldog named Jack outside who would keep her from a wolf. Another it, she felt save because her father had a gun in their room which could make all wolves run.

                        In the first chapter, this novel tells  about Laura’s and her daily activity with her family. For example, this novel tells how to looking for foods among a  dark trees. laura’s father made a trap to catch a deer and gathering so much fishes. One day, when Laura’s father got a deer, he skinned the deer carefully and salted and stretched the hides, for he would make soft leather of them. After the deer meat had been several days, Laura’s father cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Laura saw her father hang the meat on the nails in the hollow log. Her father ask her to the chopping block and fetch him some of green hickory chips-new. And laura did it. Her father built a fire inside the little door in the hollow log of tiny bits of bark and moss, then he laid some of the chips on it very carefully. Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the hollow log with thick choking smoke. Laura and her mother watched the fire for several days. When smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and her mother would put them on the fire under the meat.