Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman is a classic story of survival. The young Katherine Mary Flannigan of Boston finds herself far from home as she begins her new life in the northern country of Canada. Her mother warns her of the cold and advises her to keep warm, but Kathy doesn't know that the weather will be the least of her problems. Her life changes drastically once she reaches her new home, giving her entirely new things to worry about. She never knew that nature could become her enemy as well as her friend. Throughout the course of the novel, there are many ways that nature becomes an enemy to the people.
One day, while Kathy is working in her garden, she realizes that flames are engulfing the forest. Winds carry these flames through the entire forest as well as the village. Luckily, Kathy saves herself along with others by st
Kathy quickly finds that animals can be a natural enemy to people as well. During the disease epidemics, hungry wild dogs drag away the corpses of people who have passed from diseases to feast on their flesh. The families watch helplessly, too week from disease to stop the dogs. They are just waiting for the disease to take their lives as and become food for the wild dogs too. Mosquitoes carry and spread disease to the 'breeds and whites that are not immune to the swarms like the Indians. Kathy endures these mosquitoes when she unknowingly wears her Boston dresses in the northern country. Bears become the enemy when they attack people, such as traveler Ralph Peters, who is mauled by an angry mother bear. They can also kill, as Kathy learns when Timmy tells her the frightening story of how Jerry's life was taken by a grizzly.
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