Wood Song By Gary Paulsen

i predict that thees are his last checkpoints because sixteen and seventeen are the chapters.i am reading Wood Song by Gary Paulsen. i predict that he will be tired because he has done alot of checkpoints.well i was reading i had a few questions. the first one i had was why is he not going to fish the race.because he doesnt want to. the second one i had was were is the wind blowing. the wind is blowing strait. i had trouble with the word rear. i used my mom. the word means from behind