Elias’s Reviews > Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood > Status Update

I was surprised when Sig—the protagonist's uncle—told him to steer an 18-foot long canoe, which was something the boy had never done before. The text says " 'Pick up a paddle and kneel towards the front on the bottom.' The boy thought, All right, here's another new thing...he had no real idea how to do any of it..." I find it sort of irresponsible that this grown man trusts a child to steer a canoe down a river.