A tragic and isolated past has numerous ramifications that gravely affect the victim and his lifestyle. Rudy Wiebe explores these effects throughout his novel, The Mad Trapper. This fictionalized historic event covers the life and death of Albert Johnson, also known as The Mad Trapper and shows the reader how a man, deprived of all we take for granted, isolated from the world, defied capture and fought his way till death took him over. Weibe sets and explains the whole manhunt in a very unique and intricate manner. This as a result makes the plot even more attention-grabbing as the reader is taken through the whole event in a very enthralling manner. The author describes the manhunt and makes this historical classic alive using simple literary devices and effective diction thus creating a very inimitable and authentic style of writing. Another aspect that makes this book a great...