Strength and Skill Quotes in The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

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Quote #4

But he had never done anything like what he was prepared to do at that moment: crawl into a pack of wolves and challenge them for food, armed only with a torch of sage. (1.10.23)

Glass's rumble with the wolves displays both his strength and ingenuity. First, it shows his ingenuity because he's able to craft a weapon using only gunpowder and sage, showing his skills as a proto-MacGyver. But it also shows his strength because, well, it takes some serious chutzpah to go face-to-face with one of nature's most feared predators.

Quote #5

He liked the idea that the claw that inflicted his wounds now hung, inanimate, around his neck. Lucky charm, he thought, then fell asleep. (1.10.53)

Like his rifle, Glass's bear-claw necklace becomes another testament to his strength and tenacity. It's also worth noting that it was Jim Bridger—one of the men Glass is hunting down—who slipped the claw into Glass's bag in the first place.

Quote #6

Unlike Fitzgerald, he did have an instinct across open country. He always had, an internal compass that seemed to shepherd him in unmarked terrain. (1.11.10)

Speaking of Bridger, that kid has some serious skills himself. Although Fitzgerald constantly talks trash, Bridger's navigational ability is the only thing keeping him and Fitzy from an arrow-tipped death—and that's no small feat, if you ask us. Man—in another life, Bridger and Glass might have been best friends.