In 1863, John J. Dunbar was injured in the American Civil War. Rather than having his leg amputated, he takes a horse and rides up to the Confederate front lines, distracting them in the process. The roused Union army then attacks and the battle ends a Confederate rout. After recovering and receiving a citation for bravery, He was awarded Cisco and decided to transfer to the western frontier so he can see its vast terrain before it goes. But when he arrived Fort Sedgwick, his new post was abandoned and in disrepair. He decided to stay, started to rebuild and restock, recorded many of his observations in his journal.…
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell is a short story about a “pack” of girls raised by werewolves that are severely lycanthropic. Their parents send them to a home called St. Lucy’s run by Jesuit nuns that’s goal is to eradicate all traces of wolf culture and behavior from the girls, and assimilate them into human culture. To help them, the nuns have a handbook called “The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock”. The handbook divides each part of the “packs” development into human culture into 5 stages. The main character, Claudette, develops a lot throughout each of the 5 stages, but still has some struggles. By the end of the story, Claudette is very close to fully adapting, but still has some wolf like tendencies.…
When wolves come instead of their men they find that they might be in more trouble than they thought. The reason the story “The Interlopers” is so widespread is because, Saki uses suspense, foreshadowing, and irony to make the…
In Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher's quest to find Wellington the dog's killer leads to more discoveries than he anticipated. He has to learn how to be more independent and faces lies and betrayal. Christopher's choice to solve Wellington's murder leads to his evolution as he must mature and evolve when someone he trusted lies to him and he decides he must leave his home.…
When Rabbit Howls is the story of a woman named Truddi Chase who suffered unspeakable sexual, physical, and mental abuse throughout her whole childhood. The book is written in third person, even though it is in fact an autobiography. The book is written not from the point of view of one coherent person, but from the individual thoughts of “the troop”, which is the name of the collective group of personalities that the one woman shares. As explained in the preface by Chase’s psychotherapist, “The troop members ‘see’ and ‘hear’ each other and carry on with one another that are real to them” (xxii). Because of the things that Truddi went through, she developed Dissociative Personality Disorder, which was previously known as Multiple Personality…
Likewise the students in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” and Native Americans were both forced to assimilate into a new culture. If a Native American tried to join the American society, Native Americans could still be forced to be relocated sometimes hundreds of miles away. While the students in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” were forced to assimilate into a new culture, the girls became very civilized. In addition, “100,000 Native Americans were forced by the U.S. government” (Indian Country Diaries/Boarding Schools) to attend the boarding schools. Generally, Native American and the students at St. Lucy’s were both forced in many ways to grasp (assimilate) into a new culture.…
Jon Krakauer was in the search for great ideas for his next best seller after Into Thin Air, a personal experience were he almost died and escaped the grasp of death itself. As Krakauer was known as a best selling author, Outsiders Magazine offered him the opportunity to write about a young man who died in Alaska by unknown circumstances. As Krakauer wrote the reported death of this unknown young man, he became obsessed with the mans death. Later on in the investigation the young mans identity was known as Christopher Johnson McCandless and Krakauer found many things about himself in Chris, deciding to do extensive research…
Now I personally don’t know what a conversation between my friend and I would be like while we’re waiting to purchase and do drugs, but I do have an idea of what a conversation would be like when we’re together for more than five minutes. There are times when a normal conversation takes a turn for the worst and ends up being strange and you find yourself wondering “How the hell did we end up here?” A funny film where we see two friends having a conversation, Thomas Simon’s Wolf & Short film is both eyebrow raising, and hilarious.…
“In the span of three hundred years nationwide, but only seventy years in the West, hunters in the United States had managed to kill off the wild prey of gray wolves; settlers, farmers, and ranchers had occupied most of the wolves ' former habitat; wolfers had poisoned them; bounty hunters had dynamited their dens and pursued them with dogs, traps, and more poison; and finally, the government had stepped in and, primarily at the livestock industry 's behest, quite literally finished them off.”…
The Chosen Wolf, Adonis, stood overlooking the city as the brisk wind struck him in the face. The snow was so freezing that it felt like there were needles puncturing him with every step. He could see his breath in the chilly air around him. This was very outlandish to him, as he had come from a different world. He was from the planet of Takondwa. On this planet, the sun’s rays felt like hot coals scorching his fur coat. As the wolf was thinking about this, he realized he was getting too caught up with thinking about his home planet.…
In the beginning of the story Mowat gets dropped off in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a frozen lake. Mowat asks the pilot to remember his location because he doesn’t think he will make it out here by himself and the pilot says he don’t even know where they are and hopes he can get home. So Mowat is basically on his own if anything happens because no one knows where he is. He has a plane full of supplies provided by the government. He ends up finding a pack of wolves and sets up camp for the summer, studying their habits.…
“Wolves are the dogs that stayed behind.” The world is a cruel place. A thing that can be treasured in one instance can be a threat in the next. For many people, we stare at the natural world and see its rugged beauty and wish that we could captivate it for ourselves. The case is no different for our modern dogs. Bred from the “empty canvas” of a wolf, we’ve modified, altered, formed, transformed, reformed, and remodified wolves to be one of the closest companions we have still today: dogs. But through all of our perfecting and reshaping that we’ve done to our best friends’ closest ancestors, wolves have prevailed, echoing their famous legacy still throughout the world. Wolves, now in danger of extinction, are one of the greatest controversies…
In “Beasts” by Joyce Carol Oates, the totems play a significant role throughout the entirety of the novel. ( in regards to the protagonist (Gillian) in the novel.) Firstly, the totems are a representation of the perverse sexually deviant side in us thats kept repressed from society. Secondly, Gillian’s ambivalent perception of Dorcas is in perfect alignment with the way in which she views the totems.Lastly,Gillian’s internalized feelings of inadequacy are projected onto some of the totems.The totems are a representation of our perverse sexual side thats kept repressed while at the same time is a projection of Gillian’s feelings of inadequacy and a depiction of a perfect alignment between her ambivalent perception she feels towards Dorcas.…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time written by Mark Haddon portrays the ideas of coping with loss through human relationships and the need for control in humanity, which is represented throughout the Boone family. Coping with loss and control are both depicted through the Boone family and to a larger extent Christopher, the protagonist who is a 15-year-old Autistic boy. Haddon creates a unique perspective through the characterisation and the disproportionate level of control throughout the Boone Family.…
The wolf is truly a special animal. As the most widely distributed of all land mammals, the wolf, formally the gray wolf (Canis lupus), is also one of the most adaptable. It inhabits all the vegetation types of the Northern Hemisphere and preys on all the large mammals living there. It also feeds on all the other animals in its environment, scavenges, and can even eat fruits and berries. Wolves frequent forests and prairies, tundra, barren ground, mountains, deserts, and swamps. Some wolves even visit large cities, and, of course, the wolf's domesticated version, the dog, thrives in urban environments.…