Significant Characteristic

Two significance elements from the book that I am currently reading, Crabbe by William Bell, is the setting and the event that leads up to the setting. The setting in my book is the woods where Crabbe runs away into. This is significance to the story because this is where Crabbe wants to run away to from all his problems, and also the setting changes the way he looks at life, for example,"I lay there all night, trying to figure the answer. Was my life very different from others'? Were we all alone, in spite of the illusion of comfort from other people? Or was I only depressed by the dark, alien bush that wrapped me like a cloak?" (Bell 88). This text example shows that he starts questioning his life and what it means. Also the woods is where he gets into his accident which leads to the main plot of the story. The other significant element of my book is the event that leads Crabbe to run away into the woods. Crabbe hates his life and all the problems that he has to face. So he decides to run away, and he decides the best place to go is to the woods where his father and him would go camping in couple of weeks. He takes a lot of planning on how to run away into the woods and not leave any trace, for example, "So I planned the escape carefully. It was to be the one perfect act I'd perform in my life, pure, clean, like the edge of a razor." (Bell 19).