Into the Forest

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Une bonne mère révélée par la naissance de son bébé, deux femmes sauvages et libres qui partent affronter le monde avec leur petit garçon sous le bras… An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Overall, I never got a true sense of how far they had to travel while they were hiding out or how they obtained food to eat for so many people, day after day, for the two years that they spent in the woods. There are also a lot of Polish and Jewish names of people and places in the information that were sometimes hard to grasp.

As the fetus grows in her belly, Eva recognizes that it will be its own person someday, which grants it certain unalienable rights. As such, it deserves a chance in the world. Coming to terms with this, Eva also realizes that the world her child will enter is not the world she and her sister once knew and loved. And so, they best prepare themselves and the coming child for life in this new reality and stop wishing the world would return to what it once was. Jean Hegland and I are going to have words. "You're your own person" my ass. Nell never learned any such thing. Writing that and it being true are not the same thing. None of the above would have been a detriment if "You're your own person" wasn't written so many damned times. They lived outside every day life, right? But their own needs became the routine, the every day life. You don't get to call no society forever. Nell had the chance to BE her own person, away from Eva, and she did not take it. She stays in the same spot. Not her own person. Bullshit ending. Maybe I'll go through my (um my sister's) copy with a highlighter and scratch out every time "You're your own person" is written. Yep,” our father would say, before we all wandered off to nibble at the turkey carcass and cut slivers off the cold plum pudding, “that’s the story. Could be better, could be worse. But at least there’s a baby at the center of it.” The wedding, an intimate affair, numbered guests in the twenties. In addition to family, the couple’s circle of friends, already in Vilna for the city’s annual fair, comprised the majority of celebrators. The ceremony was simple—the young Jewish couple made their vows and then, as it was a Saturday, enjoyed a small Kiddush before the splendid supper was served. The elaborate feast of fish and meat was procured by the bride’s father and prepared by the groom’s mother.

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I found their journey after being liberated just as interesting as their time in the forest, though not as harrowing. History lovers and those who enjoy inspiring stories will not want to miss this book. Nell is the younger of the two and has been struggling with losing the close relationship with her sister when Eva finds an obsessive passion for dancing. They live with their parents in the last home on a rural road, miles away from town. Although the girls are home-schooled, they venture weekly into town with their father and forge new and exciting friendships with local teenagers in the town square. This beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel by gets mired early in a murderously sluggish pace as patient readers wait for something to happen.

Into the Forest can be seen not only as a coming of age story but as a very relevant book as far as the economic crisis is concerned. This is a plausible event which could happen, especially in today’s eerily similar circumstances. The book was written in 1998 almost as if the author could sense what was to come. The book succeeded in making me cringe with fear and foreboding! The apocolypse is neither here nor there. The girls live in the forest. It's rare that it touches their fringes. Their hell is the waiting room variety. Worrying where your next meal is going to come from (Nell) and no dreams (Eva). When the worrying becomes action a new worry about not being needed enough takes its place. Reminiscent of THE ROAD, INTO THE WILD, and the Oscar-nominated WINTER’S BONE, INTO THE FOREST is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking story of hope and despair set against a frighteningly plausible near-future.Hegland “has the ability to make the giant redwood trees seem palpable, to allow readers to breathe in the smell of the rich humus on the floor of the forest.”

What Hegland does so skillfully is to convey the diminution of the girls' physical impact as the natural world seeks to reclaim her ground, yet also the strengthening of their characters and bodies as they are forced to work for their survival. Their belongings slowly compost along with their sense of time, their ambitions, and their childhood.The story focuses on two teenage girls who live about 30 miles from the nearest town in the northern redwood forest of CA. The deaths of their parents leave them completely dependent on each other. At first they sit cozily by the fire, carefully rationing their food, taking an inventory of everything in the house, and waiting for things to return to normal. Even as they begin to grow and preserve their own food, and then develop more aggressive survival skills, they watch their resources dwindle. How incredible to make a decision about when to use the last aspirin or how to use the last can of gas. Or to savor a single Hershey's Kiss, knowing that it may be the last chocolate you will ever taste in your life. It's hard to read this book without feeling like an unappreciative squanderer. and there was a period when i thought, "hey - these girls finally have it together and are taking real steps towards their own survival," only to modify that somewhat later to, "oh, these characters are making decisions that will have literary appeal and dramatic heft. Beautifully written and often profoundly moving…To watch Nell and Eva use the current ‘breakdown’ to move toward a chosen future is to understand the breadth and great importance of Hegland’s message.” How would you answer the question raised by this novel and posed in The Sunday Oregonian:“Where are we heading, and do we know how to survive with our humanity intact if we continue in this direction?” This is a story about the Rabinowitz family and their escape away from Nazi soldiers trying to expunge Jews and into the forest where survival was unlikely. The story is compelling and horrific.

The plot draws readers along at the same time that the details and vivid writing encourage rereading….a truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell’s 1984 and Russell Hoban’s Ridley Walker. Lauren devoured it in one sitting. I did the same, but in my case it turned into more wanting to get it over with so I can start another book if and when they finally arrive in the mail.Before razing the house in which they had spent their entire lives and turning to the forest for all their necessities, Nell chooses three books to take with her: Native Plants of Northern California for Eva since it may have already saved her life; a book of stories of those who had lived in the forest for Burl; and the encyclopedia’s index for herself. In choosing the index she says, “I could not save all the stories, could not hope to preserve all the information—that was too vast, too disparate, perhaps even too dangerous. But I could take the encyclopedia’s index, could try to keep that master list of all that had once been made or told or understood.” If you could take only one item from your current existence into the future, and that one item was a book, which one would you choose and why? Why do you think that Hegland would choose to describe the retaining of information as “too dangerous?” Eva dances without music. It's a pointlessly feverish dream like if someone lost their legs and can still feel them. What the hell is she expressing anyway? She wants to be great, but c'mon it isn't going to happen. There is no one to see her dance. She has no emotions to express, other than her own desire to be "great". She may as well wear a wedding dress or put on outfits for parties she's never going to go to. I felt that Hegland tried to hard with the rotten dreams of Eva. Being "great" doesn't really mean anything. Sure, I could write here right now that I performed an awesome John Lennon frog legs dance. If you can't see me doing it what does it matter? Applause, please! I could write about some story I plan to write that no one will ever read, as Nell does, that doesn't even do anything for me. Pity, please! Eye rolls. To take his mind off the loneliness, the boy’s mother asks him to take a basket of goodies to his grandmother’s house. She tells him to go the long way round to avoid the forest. But the boy plans to ignore this advice for the first time ever, in case his father comes home early. Big Struggle Un huis clos entre deux soeurs et la forêt, quand tout signe de civilisation a disparu… ce roman est magnifique !