Transcript Chapter notes--17 & 18

Chapter notes--17 & 18
Downriver by Will Hobbs
Ch. 17 Notes
• What lies ahead? Who’s in charge?
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Havasu Creek
Followed by Upset
A major rapid
Jessie is in charge.
What concerns Jessie? How has she
changed?
• Lack of food and no way to cook
• Jessie is concerned about the others and is
especially worried about gangrene in Adam’s
foot and medicine for Freddy.
• She now feels her future is all light rather
than a dark tunnel.
What happens before they reach
Upset?
• They are intercepted by Al and a park ranger.
• Freddy and Adam are taken by helicopter to a hospital.
• Pug has been picked up and taken to Park Service
Headquarters, but Troy has escaped.
• The other three are returned home.
Chapter 18 Notes
• The denouement or unraveling…
• It is now March.
• Star lives with Jessie, her dad and
Madeline.
• Freddy is learning to fight fires in
southwestern Colorado.
• Rita is back in New York.
More ch. 18
• Troy has been found and is in Los
Angeles.
• Adam plans to work for Al in Discovery
Unlimited.
• No mention of Pug.