Trisha

In this book, Trisha is the main character. She is on a hike with her mother and brother. Her mom and brother are always fighting and she just got sick of it, so she went off to the side to go to the bathroom. She went so far off the trail, that she lost her mother and brother. Thinking that she would get back on the trail by taking a short cut, she wanders farther into the forest. Realizing that she made a mistake, she tries to double back, but just gets further lost in the forest. She wandered around the forest for a couple days with barely any food or water. She kept tripping and falling and getting hurt. She also got bit by a bunch of bugs so she wasn't doing well. The whole time she's wandering around the forest, she has the nagging feeling that something's following her. Her suspicion is confirmed when at night she hears the sounds of something near her as she sleeps. Her suspicions are also confirmed when she starts to find mutilated animals around the area she sleeps. She starts out in Maine, but by the end of the book, she was closer to Canada. Trisha really loves Tom Gordon and throughout the book, he was almost a comfort hallucination that got her through the difficult days. By the end of the book, Trisha was really sick and delirious considering the hallucinations that she had while in the woods. She winds up having a very serious case of pneumonia due to the time spent in the woods and inadequate clothing and shelter. She ends up being rescued by a hunter when he kills the bear that was hunting her throughout the book. Trisha is then taken to a hospital to be treated for her pneumonia and is surrounded by her family that are all very relieved that she has been rescued. During Trisha's time in the woods, it reconnected her family in the fact that they were all very worried about Trisha's safety and put all their differences aside to work towards a common goal.