Throughout the pages of the novel you can see the changes in Abe’s attitude. Each situation he handles a little different. Mr. Slotkin tries to reveal Abe as a vigilant young man. There are times when he seems passive and there are other times when you can tell Abe has built up anger in him that he has to let go because it comes bothering him. I don’t think there is one defining adjective as to describe Abe’s personality. Abe is just like every other human being. In a sweeping generalization you can try and summarize a persons characteristics but you would still be leaving out other qualities of the person that might be just as important.

In chapter two of the text Slotkin writes about when Prescott Oakes who ser

As he continues to read the fables there is one story that keeps sticking in his head, “The Wolf and the Lamb.” It’s a story about the wolf telling the lamb he is going to eat him for doing wrong things but it turns out the lamb is always right and in the end the wolf ends up eating the lamb by making up a lame excuse. The story really bothered Abe but he couldn’t stop reading it. Abe realized there was a hidden meaning to it and he couldn’t figure it out. While laying in bed at night it came to him that Uncle Mordecai was a wolf. “There wasn’t a thing you could say, right or wrong, that could stop him grinning his long bony too-many-teeth grin, or tearing you to pieces with his words or his skinning knife.” [Abe p. 32]

When the hidden meaning finally came to Abe he got a huge rush and wanted to go tell his mom his figured it out. This whole sequence shows that Abe is very intelligent and mature especially for his age. For a young boy his age Abe sure seemed to enjoy reading more than other children. “He felt taller the more he read it, he couldn’t give it up.” [Abe p. 33]

While sometimes it might seem that Abe didn’t obey his father all the time it still seemed like he held his dad higher than anybody else. In any event young Abe would always think was his dad said was correct no matter what. When the visit Uncle Mordecai, Abe is a little surprised in how his Uncle talks to his dad. “ It was like Uncle Mordecai had cut Pap down, just talking words. Abe had always thought of his Pap as the strongest man, and he was sure a thicker man than Uncle Mordecai. But Uncle Mordecai was like a steel-head ax and Pap like a block of wood.” [Abe p.29]

Konkapot told Abe the secret of hunting was listening. “If you wanted the good of the critters, you had to learn to listen how they think, what makes them scared, when are they hungry and what do they like to eat and whe

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