Out Stealing Horses week 4 post b

In chapter 7 of Out Stealing Horses, it is a flashback again. Jon has left his family because of the incident with him not locking his gun and it going off on his brother, killing him. Trond’s father has decided to cut down the forest around them, and the neighbors are all helping, including Jon’s parents. Trond and his father both have a small crush on Jon’s mother, which leads to tensions between Jon’s father and Trond’s father. They fight for power, with Jon’s father undermining the authority of Trond’s father, who is in charge. They keep cutting and cutting down the trees, each refusing to stop working. One day, Jon’s mother looks very sad, and out of it, because she is thinking about the loss of two of her sons. Trond stops to console her, which distracts Jon’s father and Trond’s father. Trond’s father lets go of his part of the log, which they were taking down from the pile or something, and Jon’s father falls and gets injured. The next day after Jon’s father has been taken to the hospital, Trond and his father go out in a rain storm and play in the water, which bonds them and allows them to forgive each other.