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  WHile he was riding bikes with his friend Terry, he saw his mom kiss another man. That was the secret.
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  Brian's plane crashes after the pilot dies of a heart attack and the plane runs out of fuel, somewhere above the Canadian wilderness.
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  Brian leaves Hampton New York in a bush plane to visit his father in the oil feilds of northern Canada.
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  Brian finds a niche against a rock wall and makes a shelter out of it. He then makes it safer on the 16th by weaving an outside wall like a basket out of branches
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  Brian finally wakes up. Hes been asleep on the shore since the crash an is having a hard time breathing.
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  Brian finds berries on a bush, and after seeing the birds eat them and live decides that he could have some to. He over eats.
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  While in the raspberry patch, Brian encounters a large bear. As he runs, he realizes the bear is no threat to him. If it doesn't see him as a threat, then he shouldn't see it as a threat.