3A Independent Reading discussion

You know when your guide goes insane and runs away, you're running low on supplies, and you're hiking through Canada and it starts to snow like crazy that you're definitely not having a very good day. Our two main protagonists, Will Henry and Doctor Warthrop, finally find the missing John Chandler but he is so close to death that their really was little hope for him in the first place. On top of the fact that John is now wanted by Canadian Indians, Mounties, and has begun to turn into a Wendigo. After traveling for many days and some in harsh winter conditions, Will and Warthrop found their lost guide. "His arms were outstretched and his legs together, like Christ crucified, and his head rested on one shoulder, the eyeless sockets looking toward the indiscernible horizon. He looked very small form our vantage point forty feet below, no larger than I."(152) The Wendigo had taken his second victim. Not long after, Chandler went crazy, wounded Will, and forced Warthrop to have to take drastic measures and practically drag both Chandler and Will to the town that the guide conveniently pointed to in his frozen perch. After reaching a hospital and later released, both Will and Warthrop go and make a report to von Helrung, the man that sent Chandler to find the Wendigo in the first place. Even later Chandler, despite his hospitalization and the work that was put into his reform and rehabilitation, goes on a rampage. "Dr. Chandler has disappeared,"(278) and "He has gone fully to the Outiko now." (279) The book took off for me about a third of the way through but I really only have one question. The question that I simply have just decided to ask through the book is, "Who will be his next victim?"

It seems to me the whole Wendigo problem is getting a wee bit out of hand now, enough so I'd imagine more people are starting to recognize it. Do you think that the Wendigo will draw enough attention for a united force against it? To be able to move around with such stealth and such ease the Wendigo sounds like a nasty adversary.