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Comparing and Contrasting The Sign of the Beaver and Keeping the Promise

In the book The Sign of the Beaver and the movie Keeping the Promise there are
are similarities and difference. One of the similarities that exists is that Matt used sticks to find out how many weeks his father was gone. He used about ten sticks. One stick would have seven notches for each week. Four sticks for a month. Another similarity is that Matt meets Ben. He is a fat man with a blue army coat, and he really likes tobacco. He sees Matt’s gun and told him it was worth a passel of beaver. He stayed the night and the next morning the rifle was gone.
When Matt chases after Ben for his gun, he trips and falls in a stream and gets knocked unconscious. Then two Indians, Saknis and Attean, saved...

Posted by: Sylvia Schiavoni

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