10.(a)How+does+the+boy's+relationship+to+the+wilderness+change+when+he+abandons+his+gun+and+other+lifeless+mechanicals?(b)How+does+this+set+him+apart+from+the+men+with+axes?

(a)"He had left his gun; of his own will and relinquished he had accepted not a gambit, not a choice, but a condition in which not... the old rules and balances of hunter and hunted had been abrogated(651)." In other words, since he no longer had the gun he was no longer a hunter, he was just another animal in the forest.(b)Instead of the men with axes who "constantly and punily gnawed,(647)" at the forest, the hunters tried to become one of the creatures in the wooods.