Father's outlook on life

In the following section, we will focus on Red’s the outlook on life. Note that Piper’s father Red only appears through the portrayal in Piper’s and Tuttle’s memories.

To Piper, Red appears like a hotheaded man, always taking reckless risks. He is a man living on the edge:

“How long could a daredevil like her father survive when there were so many ways to die?” (p. 110, ll. 4-6)

He appreciates Alaska’s wilderness and sees life as an adventure:

“Beautiful,’ she says into her headset. Because that’s what her father would have said, and he would have peered over his Ray-Ban sunglasses and shook his head in disbelief, as if he hadn’t seen a thousand caribou like these. And then he would have been off, pulling the plane back up and out over the tund...