Woods Runner Summary – Flashcards
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Chapter 1
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During this chapter, they were describing how Samuel has a love for the forest. It describes how he lives the woods life while others in the East are more civilized. Samuel's mother isn't so fine with the idea of living in the woods because there aren't many people around.
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Chapter 2
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A man named Isaac has came to the Smiths house telling them about the battle of Lexington and concord. Samuel's father read the news to the family about what battles have occurred. The settlers are not so sure if they should challenge the British or not.
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Chapter 3
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During this chapter, Samuel is out hunting food for the family. His first sign is bear so he continuously look for signs to get closer and closer. He reaches the bear but sees smoke from a clearing in the woods. He already knows it hasn't been dry enough for a natural forest fire. He realizes it was a battle that began.
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Chapter 4
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Samuel is running as fast as he can to his settlement. As he gets to his settlement he realizes it's all burned down. He doesn't rush into any part of the settlement until he knows there are no attackers near by.
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Chapter 5
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Samuel showed his skill from growing up in the woods, he looks around for evidence of who may have done this. He goes around checking for bodies and realizes his parents are still alive. he spots tracks of his parents and begins following them.
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Chapter 6
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From Samuel evidence in the tracks, he realizes that its not only Indians that has his parents, people with sole shoes also have his parents which makes him believe it's the British. He was able to estimate all that happened during the time of the attack.
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Chapter 7
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Samuel has been moving for 40 hours straight without food or water. He found a creek and stopped for a drink, and saw 2 men down the stream. They are both Indians so he has to be as sneaky as possible.
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Chapter 8
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Native American are dancing in celebration shooting muskets into the air with the British. Samuel here's a different sound of rifles firing and some soldiers fell to the ground. During the fight Samuel shoots one Indian and gets hit in the head from a tomahawk.
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Chapter 9
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Samuel is having hallucinations about his mother "short, skinny, fragile, and brown haired." He finally woke up to a man over him chewing tobacco to help the wound. The man explained what has happened, what they have been doing to help him, and willing to continue the help.
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Chapter 10
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Samuel completely wakes up and eats with the men that saved him. The men loaded all their supplies on an Ox and since Samuel was very weak he stayed in the back with that Ox.
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Chapter 11
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Samuel leaves the men who saves him to go find his mother and father. He runs out of food, and finds a farm with livestock. He runs to fetch one of the chickens and gets stopped by a little girl named Annie. He had a meal with Annie's family, then as he was leaving the farm, it was burned down by soldiers that didn't seem to be the British.
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Chapter 12
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Samuel finds Annie crying in the woods. She continued crying for 3 days as well as refusing to eat. Samuel is being as sneaky as possible to be undetected since there is no one that are trustworthy.
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Chapter 13
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Samuel and Annie are looking at 2 sign showing they are between Philadelphia and New York City. They hide back into the woods to discuss Samuel's plan, but Annie wants stay with him. Samuel doesn't fight with Annie because she had just suffered a terrible lost of her own.
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Chapter 14
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Samuel and Annie were caught sneaking through the woods by a merchant named Abner. Abner is willing to help Samuel get his parents back because he doesn't like the British himself. They had a long conversation about how the British overpower the Continental in numbers and practice.
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Chapter 15
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The three are Approaching New York and they see American refugees on there way. Once all the Soldiers disappear into the woods, Abner sensed British soldiers coming soon. He guessed right but they just walked pass the trolley like it wasn't even there.
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Chapter 16
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They reach the Shore of the Hudson River in New Jersey, across New York City. The river bank was filled with boats that were filled with prisoners in them. Abner finds his friend Matthew that will help them across the river bank.
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Chapter 17
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Abner and Samuel scouts out the area where his mother and father were. His mother was working and his father was in prison. They secretly sneaked to where his father was imprison, by taking out one of the guards.
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Chapter 18
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Abner brings the family back to the wagon and starts their journey through the night. He tells Samuel that they have to split up since he can no longer use the family card. Abner tells Samuel about Philadelphia and how he can safely get there.
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Chapter 19
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Samuel's family were on the road heading towards Philadelphia. They get caught by some British Soldiers and Samuel almost get killed, but the people who helped Samuel early on came and saved the boy and his family. They made it to Philadelphia and stayed there till the war was over.
