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Surfacing Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 13 Summary

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Chapter 13 Summary

They leave the next morning on the canoes. The other three think that they are simply going on a 2-day camping trip, but the narrator wants to check the places that her father's drawings had indicated. The group stops for lunch and then portages the canoes through the path to another body of water. No one but the narrator has ever portaged a canoe. As they finish the last portage, they find a bird that had been tied up by its feet. It is dead and decaying.

Chapter 13 Analysis

The narrator interests the rest of the group in an overnight canoeing and camping trip. She does not tell them the real reason of the trip is to ascertain her father's sanity.

The scene in which she finds the bird is very significant. The narrator is overcome with feelings of remorse for the bird and unadulterated hatred toward whoever killed it. She feels...
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