The Great Alone

As the family drives north, the narrator (and Leni, thanks to free indirect discourse) describes a book as “propped up like a pup tent, yellowed pages splayed out” (21). Why is this description significant? (from Chapters 3-4)

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The narrator’s language shows how Leni has begun to think in Alaska-related images.