He feeds her scraps from his catches and helps motivate her to fly short distances. Ultimately,
he trains her to come to him after he whistles
. The training continues as Sam uses a piece of meat covered in a bit of hide to help Frightful equate a small furry animal with food.
How did Sam know that frightful was finally trained?
How does Sam know that Frightful is finally trained. Sam knows that Frightful is finally trained
because she caught her first prey.
How does frightful learn her ABC’s?
With
his city clothes growing threadbare, Sam dreams of a deerskin suit and sets a trap to catch another deer for this
. The Baron keeps him company, but also delights when three deer escape the trap. As days pass, Sam also teaches Frightful to respond to his whistle.
Why does Sam name his Falcon frightful?
Sam’s falcon friend is called “Frightful”
because Sam endured great challenges to become acquainted with her
. He remembers being attacked by Frightful’s mother as he retrieved her from her falcon nest.
Is Frightful a girl or boy?
Frightful is a
female peregrine falcon
that Sam took from her nest when she was barely two weeks old to raise and train her as a hunting hawk in the art of falconry, during the novel “My Side of the Mountain”.
Why does frightful not start hunting when she is set free and hasn’t eaten in ten hours?
why does Frightful not start hunting when she is set free and hasn’t eaten in ten hours?
Because Sam trained her to wait on his single and he hasn’t done the single yet
.
What happens in chapter 16 of my side of the mountain?
Sam decides to throw a Halloween party and gathers a pile of food as an invitation for the animals in the forest to join him
. That first evening, nobody comes. The next day, Sam and Frightful go out until dusk. When they return home, they found some nuts taken from the pile.
Why was frightful taken away from Sam?
Why was Frightful taken away from Sam?
Sam was abusing Frightful. Sam was too young to own a pet bird
. It wasn’t safe for Sam to own Frightful.
What name do they call frightful and why do they call her that?
He names the bird “Frightful”
because of the horrifying experiences he encounters to get her
. As the text demonstrates: “Frightful, as I called her right then and there because of the difficulties we had had in getting together. . .”
What method does Sam use when training his falcon?
But Sam does talk about various things that he does to train the bird. For example, the first thing he does (so maybe you could call it the first step) is simply to
talk
to Frightful and touch her a lot. He says that this makes a falcon easier to train.
How old is Sam in Frightful’s Mountain?
Characters. Sam Gribley – a
12-year-old
boy who leaves home to live in the wilderness and is now almost 18.
Why was Bando in the woods?
He explains that
he had been hiking in the woods and simply gotten lost
and was waiting at the camp hoping a scout would come back to find him. Because he is a teacher on summer break, he offers to continue to stay with Sam until the end of vacation to learn how to live off the woods.
What happens to frightful in my side of the mountain?
Death by Adaptation: At the end of the movie version of My Side of the Mountain,
Frightful the hawk gets shot and dies
. In the book, she not only lives, but ends up with three sequels focusing on her.
Why does Sam take a falcon from the nest in Chapter 7?
Sam’s
desire to have a falcon springs
from several things. First, there is the practical need for a hunting animal he can control. Second, there is a romanticized notion of the falcon as “the king’s provider” as stated by the chapter title.
What was holding frightful back from migrating?
Listen for: “The two directions Frightful is being pulled in are whether to migrate or stay. Frightful stays because she spotted the ‘
one mountain among thousands of mountains
, the one tree among millions of trees, and somewhere there, the one boy,’ Sam.
