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“And they walked through the forest”
I think this line means that they are starting on the mission to their journey to the forest.
I think it is important because it shows that their first step is not very easy and all three of them is not very sure about what they will be going through.

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" Douglas, lost and empty."
-When the story started we can see how Douglas is afraid of the forest. He seems to be scared of every little sound or movement in the forest. That would be his demon he has to fight.

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“driving Douglas and his ten year-old brother Tom out of town toward the country, there were some days compounded completely of odor, nothing but the world blowing in one nostril and out the other” Doughlas was taken out of his comfort zone I know this because Douglas was unsettled....he kept stating that he felt something was going to happen today.

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"Dad was standing high above him there in the green-leaved sky, laughing, hands on hips...It was all planned. He brought us here on purpose, so this could happen to me! He’s in on it, he knows it all. And now he knows that I know." (Page 4)
This line shows that the father has been trying to help Douglas feel alive and happy during the whole trip. This shows that he is a good father.

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"Dad knows, he thought. It was all planned. He brought us here on purpose, so this could happen to me! He’s in on it, he knows it all. And now he knows that I know."
- This quote shows how much he cares for his son. He wants him to take in everything and see the world in an entirely new perspective. Furthermore, it shows how he does things for a reason and just wants his son to be happy

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The best sentences that gets the understanding of the setting is “ And they walked through the forest,” this lets me know that they are in the forest.

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"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
This line is important because this was one of the contributing factors to Douglas having a different view on the world.

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“Tom, very small, trotting in his brother’s shade”.
- I feel Tom looks up to Douglas and their father a lot. It most likely has to do with how he’s the youngest in the group and how they’re his role models. He appreciates their company and seems happy to have them around especially father.

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“He liked to listen to the silence, he said, if silence could be listened to, for, he went on, in that silence you could hear wildflower pollen sifting down the bee-fried air, by God, the bee-fried air! Listen! the waterfall of birdsong beyond those trees!” (Page 2)

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“You’re off a million miles,” said Father. “Look alive. Walk with us.” The father is trying to spend time with Douglas but Douglas doesn't seem like he knows what he is doing

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Shut up! Douglas wanted to yell. But no, the yell would scare the echoes, and run the Thing away!
And, wait . . . the more Tom talked, the closer the great Thing came, it wasn’t scared of Tom, Tom drew it with his breath, Tom was part of it!

-In the first paragraph Douglas was really outgoing and her wasn’t really not sacred of nothing but when he got to the forest his fears has showed

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“Yes, sir,” mused Tom, picking grapes, “I’m the only guy in all Illinois who’s got a snowflake in summer. Precious as diamonds, by gosh. Tomorrow I’ll open it. Doug, you can look, too . . ."

I think this quote means that Tom are trying to show something to Douglas, because Tom said about "snowflake in summer" that's precious as diamonds, and I think that means something important.

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It took half an hour for the sense of the grass, the roots, the stones, the bark of the messy log, to fade from where they had patterned his arms and legs and back.

This means that after all the time he’s been with his father and brother at the forest he finally came back to his senses

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“He liked to listen to the silence, he said, if silence could be listened to, for, he went on, in that silence you could hear wildflower pollen sifting down the bee-fried air, by God, the bee-fried air! Listen! the waterfall of birdsong beyond those trees!“. (Page 2) I feel like this shows how the dad is a laid back person due to him liking the sound of nature, the sound of silence. This may also show he’s very aware of his setting and how he cherishes things around him.

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"And they walked through the forest, Father very tall, Douglas moving in his shadow, and Tom, very
small, trotting in his brother’s shade."
This is important because it shows that they where in the forest and that Douglas and Tom are just following their father as he his the oldest one.

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“Crossing the lawn that morning, The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds. Momentarily, a stranger might laugh off in the woods , the very center of the quiet forest.”

This quote is important because they were feeling something different