[ {"chunk": 91, "story": 8, "summary": "At fifteen the grandson has an adventure that sends him away forever; that year the old man, mocked by neighbours for draining a swamp, reaps a huge crop and exults.", "predicament": "A man who staked a fortune on a venture everyone laughed at wins big, and for once lets his delight show."}, {"chunk": 92, "story": 8, "summary": "Flush with success, the old man buys machines and gifts; the boy, nearly a man, wanders the autumn woods alone with a sling and kills a squirrel.", "predicament": "A boy on the edge of manhood wanders alone, wondering what he will become, and finds boyhood still easier."}, {"chunk": 93, "story": 8, "summary": "The boy is content to be a boy hunting imaginary game, until his grandfather, with his strained, faraway look, tells him they have something important to do.", "predicament": "A young person is summoned by an older relative with a familiar distant look that always means something frightening."}, {"chunk": 94, "story": 8, "summary": "They catch and tie an out-of-season lamb, and the boy holds it as they drive on, the old man staring past him at the sky.", "predicament": "A child goes along with an older relative's mysterious errand, holding something small and helpless in his arms."}, {"chunk": 95, "story": 8, "summary": "Humbled and prayerful after his success, the old man decides to make a burnt offering so that God will reveal what place the boy should take in the world and make him a man of God too.", "predicament": "An older relative plans a dramatic ritual to learn his grandchild's destiny, certain it is for the child's own good."}, {"chunk": 96, "story": 8, "summary": "At the same wood where he was frightened before, the boy trembles and plans escape, but follows, quietly untying the lamb's legs so they can run away together.", "predicament": "A frightened child follows a relative back to a place of old terror, quietly preparing to escape with what he protects."}, {"chunk": 97, "story": 8, "summary": "The old man builds a fire and, muttering that he must put the lamb's blood on the boy's head, walks toward him with a long knife.", "predicament": "A child sees an adult he trusts come toward him armed and muttering, lost in some private purpose."}, {"chunk": 98, "story": 8, "summary": "The boy flees and, seeing the old man still running with the knife, hits him in the head with a stone from his sling; the old man falls and seems dead.", "predicament": "A terrified young person strikes back at the relative he believes means to hurt him, and fears he has killed him."}, {"chunk": 99, "story": 8, "summary": "Believing he has killed him, the boy resolves to be a man and walks off west for good; the old man recovers and says only that God's messenger took the boy because he was too greedy for glory.", "predicament": "A young person who believes he has done something terrible leaves home for good to make his own way in the world."} ]