Pages 50-75

Page 50 starts off with Sandra (Little Norman's father's girlfriend) pulling away from Norm's driveway, and almost hitting little Norm and his mother. Then little Norm and his father enter Norm's pickup truck. Then they reach the Tijuana boarder, and reach a man in uniform. Norm handed the man a receipt and the man demanded a tax for the washing machine in the back. Then the book describes Norm's life as an FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agent. He ended up hating the FBI because of the leader. As a result of Norm hating the FBI he wrote a book about the FBI. Little Norm then daydreams of his time at Mount Waterman with his father. Little Norm rode down the mountain a short distance, and crashed. He attempted to ski again, and crashed a second time. Then the daydream ends, and little Norm describes them stopping the truck for gasoline and food. They stayed that night in a hotel near crashing waves. Little Norm then thought about his trip to Alta, Utah with his father and Sandra. Little Norm ends up crashing over a fallen tree trunk and getting caught in the tree. His father later finds him. The book then returns to the plane crash. At the crash scene little Norm becomes adapted to the situation at hand, and is able to see things clearly. He looks for a rug that he remembered from the plane. He then see's Sandra, and tells her to move to him. Sandra explains that she is stuck and cannot move. Then the book returns to little Norm, and his father. His father wakes him up while he is holding their surfboards. Then at the end of the seventy fifth page they surf.

My thoughts:
So far little Norms father appears to have had quite an adventurous life. Being an FBI agent he must have been smart. I've always wanted to surf and I can't really imagine what it must have been like to be little Norm in this book. Little Norm appears to be using wisdom because he remembered the little rug, and realized he could use that rug.