Journal Entry 28: Great, Old Knowledge :)

In the story "In Trouble" by Gary Paulsen, the author is trying to tell the readers in the end of the story that somewhere in the dogs, in their humor and the way they thought, dogs have great, old knowledge and we humans lost that kind of knowledge (in the story it says: ''they had great, old knowledge; they had something we had lost"). I think that the author, Gary Paulsen says that dogs are very smart deep inside of them because when he was sledding with the dogs, he lost control and went flying out into space with the sled and he got wounded in the knee. At that moment the dogs ran away, but one of the dogs, Obeah brought the whole pack of dogs back together to help him. I am not sure, but I think from that sledding accident, Gary Paulsen learned that humans lost the type of knowledge of helping others in the middle of fear because the dogs were stuck in a very cold weather but the dogs still came back from running away and helped him perhaps save him from that terrible accident. The dogs taught him that kind of knowledge that we humans had lost.