Happy Monday! I recently finished reading The Revenant by Michael Punke, which was an incredible novel that expresses one man's revenge to get what was taken from him when his fellow hunting team left him on his death bed. Hugh Glass was a skilled fur trapper and frontiersman who was sent on a fur trapping expedition when a grizzly bear violently attacked him. He and the others later founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1822 however, it was a rough journey to achieve. When traveling along the Grand River Glass was unexpectedly attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear leaving him with nothing to fight against the bear but his weapons he was unable to reach. In addition, the bear had ripped his scalp, punctured his throat, and even left Glass unable to move. The hunters shot the bear multiple times after hearing Glasses' pain and agony. Believing that Glass was slowly but surely dying, the leader of the expedition paid two men to stay behind until Glass died to give him the proper Christian burial. These men were John Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger, both skilled frontiersmen who sought to honor their duty. After staying with Glass for several days and seeing his body was refusing to die, the unimaginable happened. Without thought, Fitzgerald took everything Glass had including his weapons leaving him nothing but a shallow grave and fur over his rotting body.
This wasn't the end for Glass, in fact this was the only beginning. As Glass had woken up shortly after the two men left he realized they had left him to continue their expedition. The legend says he crawled for six weeks which is roughly about 200 miles until finally reaching his expetition confronting the one who left him for dead, Fitzgerald. Along the way he eats rotten marrow from buffalo, traps rodents, fights off wolves, and is healed by a Sioux. The Sioux or medicine man healed Glass by using gunpowder and buffalo urine to remove all the maggots from his back. Crazy right? Glass met a group of French men called voyageurs that took him up and down the river. So what exactly happened when Glass confronted Fitzgerald? What was the motive of hunting Fitzgerald after Glass lay rotting and finally regaining back strength? A revenant is a myth that you will become a ghost if you fail to do the right thing. Although, Glass suffered is the revenge he seeks all worth it over a weapon or does Fitzgerald deserve every bit he put him through?
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