Chapter 1 begins with a harrowing situation forand her family. Readers meet Lyddie
while she is stirring a pot of oatmeal over the fire. Unfortunately, her brother, Charlie, left
the door to the house open, and a bear enters the cabin. Lyddie immediately takes action, and
she is able to get everybody up into the loft area for some modicum of protection against the
bear. The bear rummages around for a bit, and it makes its way over to the boiling pot of
oatmeal. It tries to eat the oatmeal, but it is burned in the process and leaves the
house.
Most of the family laughs at what they just went through as a way of
working out the stress and tension, but Lyddie's mother doesn't think it is any laughing matter.
She thinks that the bear signals the beginning of the end times, so she tells her family that
they are going to leave the next day. Lyddie's mother wants to be "with the faithful when
the end comes."
Charlie and Lyddie refuse to leave. They want to tend
to the house through the...
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