Take Advantage Of A Wild Thing Designed And Illustrated By Jean Renvoize Produced In Digital Format

is ayear old girl in Scotland who climbed on a bus to escape her neglectful childhood and the series of unpleasant foster homes that followed it, Her destination: some beautiful, remote mountains beyond a small village, as depicted in a photograph she clipped from a newspaper, This photo is her "happy place," something she looks at to daydream when life gets to be too much, She doesn't have much of a plan, and due only to tenacity and some extraordinary luck, she manages to not die within a few days,

She gets set up in a cave, abducts a couple of feral goats, and steals some things from nearby farmhouses in order to get herself going, And at first, living in the wilderness is good for Morag being alone with nothing to do but take care of her own needs gives her a measure of peace that she never had in her previous life.
Side note: it wasn't pointedly addressed, but there was something off about Morag's mental state, Maybe just a case of ADD combined with an unstable family life, maybe something more,

After a while, though, loneliness and boredom begin to set in, Also, the superstitious rural townfolk have compared notes about things going missing from their homes and yards, and think that some sort of demon is responsible, What will happen to Morag Spoiler alert: nothing good,

This book made me feel things, It was a darker take on the same themes as sitelinkIsland of the Blue Dolphins, although the heroine of that book, better prepared, lastedyears instead of nine months.
I know A Wild Thing has a sad ending, but I still got a deep feeling of peace reading about this young girl who goes weeks and months without encountering another living soul.
It's the sort of thing that sometimes sounds very appealing to me, usually when I'm getting especially tired of having my boyfriend's obnoxious cat around all the time, It's not something I ever seriously consider, but I would seriously consider rereading this once every few years when I want to feel that sweet, sweet solitude, An absolutely beautiful book. Very sad. I read it a very long time ago, Just ordered it off of Amazon, I will reread then add a proper review, I found this book both beautiful and disturbing, Just thinking about if makes me slightly uncomfortable, and yet it has followed me thorough two moves while many other favored stories were left behind, There is something quite compelling about it, A haunting story of a foster girl who runs away to the mountains to live in the wilderness, Obviously scarred by her past and foster status, your heart breaks for Morag from the beginning, and you just know that her story is inevitably going to end tragically, This beautifully written tale will leave your heart heavy and linger in your mind long after you've read the last word, What a sad little book, Perhaps an object lesson to young people inclined to make a run for it, . . I always wondered what poor Morag thought she was going to do when winter came, The dream of living in freedom in the wilderness is enormously appealing on a summer's day, With snow lying five feet deep outside the cave, "freedom" becomes an appalling struggle just to survive and an Inuit girl of such tender years would find it a

big ask in those environs.
sigh As I began, such a sad little book, First up, if hopelessly depressing material has no emotional effect on you, then slide that over to four because it was well written, The character was very well developed and it was a page turner, I read it overyears ago and I remember a lot of it, I was surprised they let us check it out of our private school library it has rough language and fairly graphic sexual content for its day, What I must have might have missed is the point of it all, Of course, I didn't care for all the tragic stuff that we were forced to endure in English class either, like Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, . . and of course the timeless Steinbeck story of George shooting his ketchup loving friend in the back of his head, If all you want is sadness,a negative outlook upon the human condition why not read history Parts of it are pretty bad, Okay, I will ease up a bit in case this truly gifted author still walks among us and add a little perspective, I wasand my dad was dying when I read this and the ending really wasn't what I was hoping for, Lost my original copy purchased in high school through Scholastic, but located a copy through Alibris, I'm looking forward to rereading a book that has long stayed with me, The townspeople believed she was a demon spirit, . .
They frightened each other with tales of a wild young creature glimpsed here and there for an instant, then vanished, In truth, Morag was a lonely young runaway, a girl, not quite sixteen years old, who had deserted the poverty and pain of life as an unwanted child to live a harsh dream of freedom in the wilderness.
Her home was a cave, her companions two goats and a mosscovered skeleton until, one day, a boy wandered into her strange, solitary existence and brought with him all the joys and evil of the civilization she had fled.


The most provocative adventure story since Lord of the Flies, . . "Extraordinary!"
The New York Times,