In the book Dog Song it is about a teenage boy that want to know what his "song" is so he has to go on a great journey to find out what the song is. They are in the middle of somewhere snowy like Alaska. He would have to run until he died or he finally found his song. Russel the boy really wanted to go on the adventure to find it since he was not really someone that was appreciated so his older friend Oogruk give Russell his 6 dogs to go on the run. They would sat off into the hundreds of miles of just snow,trees,and rivers.
He want on his journey sledding through the white snow only to find a young pregnant woman that was kicked out of her village because she had sex without being married so they discovered of it and kicked her out. So he picked her up in the slide and took her back to his village but the problem was that he was out of food so he would have leave her with the camp and take the dogs to go find some kind of food. So he was gone for 6 days with other food then they finally found a polar bear trying to find food so Russell want over to kill it with his dogs and hands.
He had the dogs go up to it as he want the long way to go behind with only some wire. Then he killed it eat the meat just to go back on the 6 days journey back to the camp. When he got back the young woman was going to have the baby but when it came out it was dead so he had to take it to a far spot. She lived only by the food Russell had gotten back with his help she was able to live but sadly the baby died. The book would end on the journey to go back to the village to start a family with the young woman.
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