Recommendation

I would recommend the Louis L'Amour books for all people that like good adventures. They are western books that tell of the many journeys of the old west.

Best and Worst parts

The best part of the story is the end when there is all the fighting. The way that they got themselves out of trouble is really good, and you wanted to keep reading more. There really weren't any bad parts in the story, just less excitement at certain times.

Conflict and Resolution

The conflict in the story is that the Mowatt gang wants the Kernohans out of the area and they want to find the treasure. They try to intimidate them to drive them out, but they aren't going to leave. The resolution is when the gang goes to burn their house and kill them, but the Kernohans saw them coming and got out of there in time. There is a big battle over the next few days, and in the end, most of the members of the Mowatt gang got killed, and the ones that did survive left the area. The Kernohans stayed and lived there after that.

Character Development

Throughout the story, Doby changes from a dreaming young boy, to a young adult. In the begining of the story, he is thinking about the "dream" girl that he is going to meet and rescue or some type of thing like that. When he first realizes that there is a girl out there somewhere that is running from the gang, he dreams of rescueing her. That doesn't end up happening, and although he is dissappointed, he realizes it was for the better. By the end of the story, he realizes that he will eventually meet a girl and that he doesn't have to dream about it anymore, in time he'll meet someone.

Archetypes

The story has many archetypes for the characters in it. They are, hero, innocent embarking on a journey, and destroyer/superhero (good/evil). The hero is for Owen, who comes to the cabin and then lets the Kernohans still live there, and fights so that they can live there. The innocent would be for Doby, who is always going out on his own to try and find his "dream" girl. The good/evil would apply for the Mowatt gang, and Owen and the Kernohans, who are all in a battle over the "treasure".
For the Archetypal settings, it would be in the forest, and mountains/peaks. In the forest are all of the Mowatt gang, all of the action takes place there, and everything is unexpected. The mountains/peaks applies for the cabin up on the hill that Doby goes too, and also when Owen goes there to try to figure out what it is that his brother has left behind.
For the archetypal actions/events, it would be a journey, because the Kernohans went on a quest to go find a place to live, and they had many different events happen on that journey.

The End

Owen was thinking of what he knew and how that might lead him to the treasure. Then he decided that they needed to get out of there, before the Mowatt gang found them and there was trouble. They decided that they were going to go back to the cabin, because the old man told them of the cover they would have there, and the things that Clive had done to the area before he died in case he was in trouble. As they were making their way back to the cabin, they accidentally rode right into the middle of Mowatt's camp. There were shots fired and chaos for a couple of minutes, and then they all barely got out of there. They made it back to the cabin, and they knew that the gang would be coming soon. While Owen was out scouting for the gang, he saw a few of them, then hurried back to the cabin. When he got there, everyone was gone, and there were some of the gang members in the trees trying to get him. While he was sneaking through the trees, he was caught, and they took him back to the camp. Mac brought him back to the cabin and Owen figured out where the treasure was. Owen got out of the cabin alive, but it was close, and when he got out, he took off after Marny. He found her, killed the man who had kidnapped her, and then they all met back at the cabin. They all went out to where the treasure was hidden, and inside the metal box was a parchment with some writing on it and a single small gold nugget. The Kernohans, Owen, and Marny all settled down in the area to live, and the old man went back up into the hills. "The problem with people," according to the old man, "is they make too much damn noise!"

Third Post 100-150 pg

When Owen and the old man got up the next morning, they went down and found Marny. While they were there, they ended up shooting three of the four men that were trying to get her. While this was going on, the rest of the Mowatt Gang went over to the Kernohans cabin. When Doby looked up and seen them coming, he yelled to his father, and luckily he had already thought ahead in case something like this happened. Pa went into the house and grabbed some necesities, while Doby shied the livestock into the open meadow at a dead run. They got on their horses, and headed straight towards Lost Canyon, where they could keep the cattle out of trouble. The gang set the house on fire, but luckily it didn't burn the whole thing down. Doby and Pa went back and took some shots at some of the guys, then went back to the canyon, but Pa had gotten shot in the shoulder. Owen, Marny, and the old man came to the canyon too, and they needed to come up with a plan. Owen left out on his own, and went into the Mowatt gang's camp in the middle of the night. He talked to Mac, the leader, and couldn't talk him out of leaving, so that meant war. On his way back to the canyon, he stopped by the house, and grabbed some books. Then, Owen Chantry thought he might know where the treasure was hidden.

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Second Post 50-100 pg

Owen went up to a cabin on the side of a mountain a little ways away from where the Kernohans are living. While he was there, he met a girl named Marny Fox, and her step father, Mowatt, was the leader of the group of men that are trying to run the Kernohans out of the area. The Kernohans however, are not going to leave the area, and Doby's father sent him out to get rail posts for a fence they are going to build. When he goes back to get the posts, he decides to go up to the cabin on the side of the mountain, and while he is there, he runs into some trouble. Three men came up on horses, one of them was the man that Doby beat up. They beat Doby up pretty good, and he is laying there going in and out of conciousness when Marny finds him there. She went and got Owen for help. They get Doby back home and he gets better. Owen goes back up to that cabin, and he is trying to find any clue that his brother might have left that would tell him where the treasure is. Marny runs off from the Mowatt gang, and there are four members of the gang trying to find her. Owen goes out to find her before they do, because he is worried that they will hurt her, and while he is looking for her he meets a gray old man that has lived in the hills in the area for years.

my reading history

The only time that I ever read is usually when I am reading about sports, either in the newspaper or a magazine, or when I am reading the comic strips in the newspaper. When I was younger, I used to read some in school. The type of books I read then were mysteries. My favorite books to read then were The Magic Treehouse, and Hank the Cowdog. These books were very simple to understand, and they were fun to read.
Now as I said earlier, I don't read anymore, besides the magazine Sports Illustrated. I quit reading in middle school, when I started playing sports and hunting. I probably should read more but it is just boring and I would rather go play some video games or go do something outside, like a sport or walking around in the mountains. I like to those things way more than just sit around and read.

First Post

Louis L'Amour
Over On The Dry Side
October 1975
We are reading a book for our Honors English class. I chose this one. It is the story of a man and his son who are traveling west to go find a place to build a home. They come up upon a house that is called the Chantry place, and on the front step there is a dead man laying there. They decide that this is the place that they are going to stay and live, and they bury the dead guy, who they assume is Chantry. By the looks of things, they come to the conclusion that it wasn't indians that killed the man, it was white men. While they are starting to get settled in, a stranger on a horse comes, and they find out his name is Owen Chantry, the dead man's brother. He says he is glad that they are staying there and stays with them. A group of bad white guys comes riding up, and they threaten the three of them, and tell them they need to be gone by that night. If they aren't gone, they are going to burn the house down with them in it. Owen shoots one of the guys fingers off, and Doby, the son, gets into a fight with one of them and beats him up pretty badly.