 a young man is left to live in the woods for one day and one night to become a man, because his father thinks he is too wimpy. while there he meets an old man who built a bowling land out of mud and bowls a lot. the man teaches the young man to bowl, and therefore become a man. the old man then tells the story of how his wife was accidentally killed while he got a perfect game. when the young man s father arrives the next day they drive off, and in the future the then young man takes his own son to the woods to become a man also.