Night the White Deer Died, The

By Gary Paulsen

Book Overview

An Indian brave stands poised to shoot a white deer drinking from a pool of water in the moonlight. It is only a dream--a recurring nightmare that haunts 15-year-old Janet Carson--but it is a dream... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385301545
• ISBN13: 9780385301541
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.5" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An Outstanding book, It completely changed my life

Janet and her mother live in Tres Pinos, New Mexico. Janet throughout the story, lives an interior world of loneliness and confusion. Her mother always worked and she didn't get along with the girls in town. The weird thing about this girl was that almost every night she had a dream, where an indian is shooting a deer with his arrow, but she never gets to see the Indian's face nor the deer being killed. Janet meets an old Indian, who drank wine all day long. His name was Billy Honcho and lived in the Indian Pueblo. The few times Janet was with him, she felt comfortable and thought he was interesting. Se then realized she wasn't dreaming anymore. Janet started to love him and wanted to keep seen him, until one night Billy appears in her courtyard on a horse...My best part of the book was when Janet meets Billy. The mood of the story changes since the feelings of loneliness aren't mentioned anymore. Instead of loneliness the author expresses anxiety from Janet to see Billy again. The story shows a different view of two different cultures. It also compares the experience and non experience and how they learn to relate.