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In the book “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George, a boy named Sam Gribley decides to go off and live in the wilderness to get away from the city. He lives in a forest for over a year, and at the end, his family comes to visit him. The book ends with Sam’s family deciding to move in with him to his little section of the wilderness. He had lived alone in the base of a tree happily and was upset that his family was deciding to build a house for him and the rest of his family to live in. I also did not like that the story ended with Sam ending up basically back where he started; with a bunch of other people in a civilized house. I know that one big theme of the book was that you can never really truly escape people and civilization

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