Into The Wild - Notes

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For this post I have simply grouped the characters and Incidents in the book. If you think I have placed any of them incorrectly or missed anything, please feel free to comment and let me know, or discuss it. Please note that I am looking at the characters and incidents in this book alone, and not considering their relation to the rest of the series.

Main Characters

• Bluestar
• Greypaw/Greystripe
• Tigerclaw
• Rusty/Firepaw/Fireheart
• Yellowfang
• Ravenpaw

Minor Characters

• Lionheart
• Redtail
• Spottedleaf
• Smudge
• Longtail
• Darkstripe
• Sandpaw
• Dustpaw
• Brokenstar
• Blackfoot
• Clawface

Incidental Characters

• Mousefur
• Henry
• Oakheart
• Whitestorm
• Smallear
• Halftail
• One-eye
• Dappletail
• Frostfur
• Willowpelt
• Speckletail
• Crookedstar
• Runningnose
• Runningwind
• Barley
• Goldenflower
• Brindleface
• Patchpelt
• Rosetail
• Ashfur
• Dawncloud
• Brightflower
• Raggedstar
• Nightpelt

Major Incidents

• The sunning rocks battle is fought
• Spottedleaf gets the ‘Fire alone can save our clan’ prophecy
• Rusty meets Greypaw, Rusty meets Bluestar
• Bluestar offers Rusty a place in ThunderClan
• Rusty loses his collar in a fight with Longtail, the clan learns Redtail is dead
• Yellowfang attacks Firepaw
• Firepaw beats Yellowfang
• Firepaw decides to help Yellowfang
• ThunderClan confirms WindClan’s disappearance
• Firepaw feels lucky to live in a clan
• Bluestar confronts Firepaw about talking to Smudge
• Firepaw questions Tigerclaw’s motives in the assessment
• Brokenstar demands the right to hunt in other clans’ territory, and warns the clans of an ex-ShadowClan rouge (Yellowfang)
• Firepaw goes to warn Yellowfang
• Bluestar refuses to believe Yellowfang is a threat, and orders that she not be harmed
• Firepaw sees the Moonstone, and realises it is what he dreamed of
• Firepaw wonders if his other dreams will also come true
• Bluestar loses a life
• ShadowClan attacks the camp and kills Lionheart
• Tigerclaw is made deputy
• Firepaw overhears Ravenpaw murmuring to himself about how Tigerclaw wanted to be deputy ever since he ‘took care of Redtail’
• Tigerclaw implies Ravenpaw is a ShadowClan spy
• Firepaw forgets to tell Bluestar what he knows about Tigerclaw, and the danger Ravenpaw is in
• Ravenpaw is sent to hunt in ShadowClan territory
• Ravenpaw tells Firepaw about Tigerclaw killing Redtail
• Frostfur’s kits and yellowfang go missing
• Firepaw and Greypaw take Ravenpaw away from ThunderClan, and send him to live with Barley
• Brokenstar is defeated
• Firepaw and Greypaw become warriors (Fireheart and Greystripe)
• Fireheart vows to himself to tell Bluestar about Tigerclaw’s treachery

Minor Incidents

• Rusty explores the woods
• Rusty tells Smudge he’s leaving
• Rusty is taken to the camp
• Bluestar announces Rusty’s arrival to the clan
• Tigerclaw brings Redtail’s body back
• The clan mourns Redtail
• Bluestar announces Lionheart as the new deputy, and Darkstripe as Dustpaw’s new mentor
• Firepaw catches his first mouse
• Firepaw gets his first solo hunting mission
• Firepaw doesn’t kill Yellowfang
• The ThunderClan patrol find Firepaw and Yellowfang together
• Bluestar questions Firepaw’s actions
• Firepaw is ordered to care for Yellowfang as punishment for eating before the clan had been fed
• Ravenpaw shows lack of enthusiasm for training even after healing
• The clan prepares for an attack from Shadowclan
• Tigerclaw gives Greypaw, Firepaw, and Ravenpaw an assessment
• Firepaw finds Smudge in the woods
• Ravenpaw returns from his assessment with an adder
• Bluestar invites Firepaw, Ravenpaw, and Greypaw to the gathering
• Yellowfang and Firepaw talk
• Yellowfang is dragged in front of high rock after the cats return from the gathering
• Lionheart tells Ravenpaw, Firepaw, and Greypaw that they will accompany Bluestar to the Moonstone
• Firepaw has disturbing dreams about a bright light at the end of a tunnel (the Moonstone), ThunderClan fleeing, and great cats
• Bluestar leaves the moonstone cavern in a hurry
• The clan cats begin hurrying home
• Rats attack the travelling cats
• Tigerclaw asks Bluestar how many lives she has left
• Greypaw complains about the ShadowClan smell in ThunderClan territory
• The vigil for Lionheart ends
• Tigerclaw gives Bluestar ‘body guards’ (spys for her private conversations with other cats)
• Yellowfang and Firepaw share a friendly conversation after she is asked to join ThunderClan
• Spottedleaf tells Firepaw the ‘Fire alone can save our clan’ prophecy
• Firepaw confronts Ravenpaw about what he knows about Tigerclaw, and tells him that he heard Tigerclaw telling others that Ravenpaw was a traitor
• Firepaw promises to help Ravenpaw
• Bluestar tells Firepaw that she only has two lives left
• The clan accuses Yellowfang of killing Spottedleaf and stealing Frostfur’s kits
• Ravenpaw is chased away from the nursery
• Firepaw and Ravenpaw tell Greypaw about Tigerclaw
• Greypaw and Firepaw find Yellowfang
• Yellowfang tells Firepaw why she was driven away from Shadowclan
• Greypaw, Firepaw, and Yellowfang hide as the ThunderClan patrol passes
• Yellowfang asks the ShadowClan elders for help
• Firepaw catches up to the ThunderClan patrol
• Firepaw tells ThunderClan Yellowfang is innocent
• Yellowfang plans the attack on the ShadowClan camp
• The kits are returned to Frostfur
• Yellowfang’s name is cleared, and the clan accepts her
• Greystripe and Fireheart sit their vigil

Trivial Incidents

• Rusty is told how hard life can be for a wild cat
• Rusty is given time to decide if he wants to join ThunderClan
• Rusty dreams of the clan cats
• Rusty tells Smudge about how he met the clan cats
• Smudge accepts Rusty’s decision to leave
• Rusty meets Whitestorm
• Ravenpaw starts to recount the battle to the clan
• Greypaw explains what StarClan is to Firepaw
• Spottedleaf treats Ravenpaw
• Firepaw meets Sandpaw
• Firepaw starts his training
• Firepaw goes on a tour of the territory
• Firepaw learns RiverClan’s scent
• Firepaw learns ShadowClan’s scent
• Sandpaw and Dustpaw brag about going to the gathering
• Firepaw’s first catch when on is solo hunting is ruined because Greypaw alerts it
• Firepaw and Greypaw tussle
• Firepaw sees a ShadowClan cat watching him from across the thunderpath
• Firepaw breaks the part of the ‘Warrior Code’ that states ‘The clan must be fed first.’
• Greypaw and Firepaw discuss Yellowfang
• Tigerclaw and Bluestar discuss Yellowfang
• Tigerclaw denies Firepaw prey
• Firepaw yells at Yellowfang
• Yellowfang laughs at Firepaw’s outburst
• Firepaw fetches herbs for Yellowfang
• Yellowfang snaps at the kits
• Firepaw removes Yellowfang’s ticks
• Firepaw washes the mouse bile off himself in a stream
• Firepaw hunts with his friends Greypaw, and Ravenpaw
• Greypaw, Ravenpaw, and Firepaw discuss training
• Greypaw overeats
• Yellowfang thanks Firepaw for tending to her
• Firepaw returns to his warrior training
• The apprentices discuss the next gathering
• Greypaw knocks Ravenpaw’s adder off the stump, and it hits Ravenpaw
• Ravenpaw, Greypaw, and Fireheart play fight
• ThunderClan waits at the top of the slope for Bluestar to give the order to enter the gathering
• The apprentices point out the other leaders present
• Most of the ThunderClan cats start mingling among the other clans at the gathering
• Firepaw listens to the other cats talk at the gathering
• Firepaw and Greypaw get travelling herbs from Spottedleaf
• Firepaw thinks about the day he may become a warrior
• The cats emerge from Mothermouth
• Barely greets the travelling cats, warns them about dogs, and then saves them from rats
• Firepaw trains with Bluestar
• Firepaw gets the upper hand with Bluestar
• Firepaw gets to see Brindleface’s kits
• Rain and thunder delay most of the clans search for Yellowfang, and Frostfur’s missing kits
• The ShadowClan elders relay the state of their clan to the ThunderClan patrol

Note: I found it interesting that Bluestar neglected to give Greypaw a new mentor after Lionheart died at the same time as appointing a new deputy.

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