Inman is continuing his adventure back to his home. On his walk, he comes across a little lady who is bawling her eyes out over the fact that she lost her daughter. Inman offered to help build a casket for the lifeless girl and bury her. The lady accepted his offer and near sunset, they were done. The lady cooked him dinner and told him how she was the last survivor out of nine (six boys, one father, and one grandma). After he was done eating, she sent him on his way. The next few days, he walked through the mountains and it started becoming familiar to him. One morning, he awakened to a sow bear and her cub looking at him. The sow charged and Inman side-stepped the attack. The bear ran right off the cliff and ended with a splat. Inman walked over to the cub who was now crying and shot it. To not waste meat, he fried it up that night to eat. This chapter didn't make a lot of sense to me. There was a lot of description of the woods and I just got confused/lost. However, I still like the book. I do not get how a man, shot once in the neck and in the shoulder (if I am correct) can walk day and night back to his home. Why didn't he just stay in the hospital until his would was healed?
This picture symbolizes loneliness. That lady who lost her daughter is on her own now.
Inman sure had regret after he shot that cub. Especially when he was frying it up.
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