Barn owl
...y development as a human being. In the toughest of times, there is no substitute for learning from the experience of those who have been there, done that, and prospered. The novel is about a young vicar who does not have much time to live anymore and that is the reason why he is sent to an Indian village in the Northwest of the USA to learn the meaning of life and death. At first it is hard for him to get used to the completely different Indian way of life. They have their own traditions and ideas of life; they live very close to nature, which means everything in nature has its own meaning. For example, the Indians do not hunt for fun but to survive, even the animals know that. The Indians seem to be very shy, actually they are just distrustful but polite people. They accept white people and after some time of uncertainity they make him the vicar of their community. The vicar realizes that he understands them now and that he has changed even his own attitude. Learning from our experience involves more than just gaining the experience itself. It also ...