Dealing with the growing pains of a sensitive, adolescent boy, Ah, Wilderness! was characterized by O'Neill as "the other side of the coin," meaning that it represented his fantasy of what his own youth might have been, rather than what he believed it to have been (as dramatized later in Long Day's Journey into Night).
After 15 years in the political wilderness, the boy mayor -- calmer, less impetuous, as determined as ever -- was back.
But you wouldn't know it, looking at the texture of things as simple as a Boy Scout - oops, Wilderness Explorer - uniform, the feathers of a bird, the fur of a dog or the individual hairs in an eyebrow.
Toy's House (Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Screenwriter: Chris Galletta) — Three unhappy teenage boys flee to the wilderness, where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny.
Marge and Lisa make themselves comfortable by a campfire, while the boys freeze in the wilderness.
So when a mysterious and malnourished boy walks out of the wilderness, the authorities call Snow.
Gary Paulsen's Hatchet was another favourite, where a boy crash-lands in the wilderness and learns to survive on his own.
Along for the ride is the perky but irritating Russell, a young Wilderness Explorer (read Boy Scout) who was standing on Carl's doorstep when the house launched itself into the skies.
(Ages 12 and up) O.K., you sort of knew that "Hatchet" and its sequels, the novels about Brian, the boy who survived in the wilderness after a plane crash, weren't entirely made up.
Stacie Passon's Concussion, about a woman in a lesbian relationship who becomes a call girl, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts's Toy's House, about three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness, are also in the running.
