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Of Wolves And Men By Barry Holstun Lopez Summary
For my Forces of Nature essay, I'm choosing "Of Wolves and Men" by Barry Holstun Lopez. This short story is very descriptive, and filled with tons of figurative language making it easy to create vivid pictures in your imagination. Barry Holstun Lopez wrote incredibly well, making it seem your with the wolf as the story proceeds. I found myself very interested in the story, it wasn't hard to read and kept me entertained. Even though the story had no dialogue and no human characters it was very enthralling, I liked it a lot

The most pictorial and most enjoyable part of the story to me was when the main wolf, met his sister. The way they called after to each other, brought the sounds of wolf wholes to my mind. I loved how I could relate

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