Preview

Summary Of The Wild Life Of Christian The Lion

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
200 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Summary Of The Wild Life Of Christian The Lion
I think that the big idea for this passage, The Wild Life of Christian the Lion by Tod Olson, is to let the lions to be free. “Ace Bourke and John Rendall walked into Harrods and saw a lion cub trapped in a small cage.” They wanted him to be free, and they immediately bought him. But they did not want to keep him forever. One of the reasons I know this is because John said, “We knew we couldn’t betray him by putting him in a zoo.” They wanted him to be free. They were hooked up with people in Kenya to let Christian go. One of them was named Adamson. Adamson was sure that Christian was thriving in his new environment. Also in the poem Wild Home by Rebecca Kai Dotlich I think it has the same big Idea. One of The reasons that I know this is that

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    In the passage the sea lion was injured and needed help. Natsilane was there to help. In the passage it shared that, “Natsilane healed the sea lion's flipper”. In return the sea lion helped Natsilane. After healing his flipper the sea lion safely returned Natsilane home.…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Secondhand Lions, I felt that there were many important life lessons. From the start of the movie I thought that there might not be any connection between the uncles and Walter. Throughout the movie I realized that I was very wrong and that this new family had a lot to learn from each other. By the end of the story I could truly see that the everything that happened between the characters would always be with them the rest of their life. Both Walter and his uncles learned a great deal about life which all of them needed to know.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Chimera was a fire-breathing Greek monster that was believed to have the head and body of a lion, a goat head protruding from its back, and yet her tail was a snake. The Greek monster was the child of Typhoeus and Echidna and was known to reside in Lycia. Chimera was traditionally a female mythological character who was believed to have been the sibling of Cerberus; the three headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld. She was rumored to have given birth to multiple other greek monsters, such as the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion. This monster had a reputation for being associated with shipwrecks, storms, and other natural disasters. Unfortunately; or maybe fortunately for the greeks, the Chimera was killed by Bellerophon.…

    • 126 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Clive Staples Lewis early life he was an atheist. He was distraught over the passing of his mother. Lewis was eventually converted to Christianity by some of his friends; shortly thereafter he began writing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Christianity played a big role, as the story is an obvious allegory for the Bible. Christianity is well-rooted throughout the novel in the hero, who represents Jesus, and the stone table, which represents the cross.…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “The Lion in the White House”, written by Aida D. Donald, is a book about the life of Theodore Roosevelt. She descriptively tells about Roosevelt’s life, beliefs, accomplishments, and leadership. The biography starts off from his first word to his last breath. Roosevelt was a writer, cowboy, politician, environmentalist, and president. In shorter words he was his own limelight. At the age of 42 he became the youngest president of the United States of America. Although he may seem very strong, he was weak as a child.…

    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Because of the lion’s dangerous actions, the villagers had to alter their society and be scared of the “beast”. The cause and effect makes the lion appear to be a figure of terror; not an affectionate creature. Next, Goodwell Nzou supports his second claim by asserting that Americans are hypocritical because they are doing things that are similar to trophy hunting in their own country. He uses an anaphora to appeal to logos when stating, “Don’t tell us what to do with out animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles” (Nzou). For this claim, the author uses the anaphora to repeat “don’t” to emphasize the fact that Americans should not be criticizing Africans for the killing of Cecil when they do just as much harm to their own country. The readers can clearly see what the Americans are doing to their societies, and begin to wonder if they support the ban for trophy…

    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    African lions play a big role in the ecosystem. They are at the top of the food chain and are responsible for 85% of predation in their habitat. They prey on herbivores such as buffalo, antelope and zebras. The African lion’s biome is in the tropical grassland and their habitat is the grassy plains of the African savanna. Without the lion, the ecosystem would be unbalanced and unstable.…

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    It all came down to this. The score was tied 103-103 with 10 seconds left on the clock. The shot will make or break our storied season that has the whole state buzzing. From going 4-22 the season before to now being 25-1 and the 2nd ranked team in the state this is a season to remember.This is the story of the Wacko Lions.…

    • 777 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Finding within it all the places it needs- a lookout, a place for resting, for eating and drinking, for bathing, for grooming-etc. – and finding that there is no need to go hunting, food appearing six days a week, an animal will take possession of its zoo space in the same way it would lay claim…” I disagree with the fact that the cages are the animal’s territory and home. Just because the cage can fulfill the basic needs (resting, look out, eating, and bathing) that doesn’t mean its territory. The animal is being forced to live in the cages and so it has to deal with the situation and cope with it. Where he says “… fulfilled by close by and safely” he is wrong. The bars around the cage aren’t for safety for the animals but for simply keeping it inside its cage. It’s a safety for us! How does this even make sense in the first place? It’s basically saying that, someone a human is forced to live in a cage where he/she will be supplied with food and calling that cage their home! Their safe, have a place to eat, rest, lookout… It’s the human’s territory and home now because it will stay there forcefully until it dies… You can also look at this like this. You see a lady bug crawling around. So you take a jar and cover it atop it. You give it food/water daily… So basically now the jar is its home…

    • 892 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Allegory In Beowulf

    • 1062 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In the book the Fairie Queen, although the lion has no name in the story it is still part of Spensor’s allegory. A lion is the king of the jungle; it inherently signifies natural law. Which could be vehemently ferocious when it has to, but seemingly sympathetic to Christian reality. Rendering to Christian divinity, natural law crafts and creates part of God’s celestial law. Of human nature Christian is not an antagonist, it acts in harmony and unity with it. The lion instinctively assists and protects Una. Conversely, why is it no contest for the knight Sansloy? Without the law, act, rule, or decree of God, who maneuvers outside the circumference of heavenly law? The natural law symbolized and personified in this lion holds no power nor influence above Sansloy. Sansloy is capable of manipulating and destroying the lion because he isn’t subjected to the indefinite laws of nature. Nevertheless, the lion can trounce, conquer and overwhelm the robber, who infringes and disobeys the natural law by constantly stealing, committing larceny, and indulging…

    • 1062 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Who Peynted The Lion

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages

    “Who peynted the leon, tel me who?” (The Wife of Bath Prologue line 857).This quote is describing how the lion is metaphorically representing a person in this case women and the who men. Men are the individuals who painted women into their image of how they want them to be. This is what exactly The Wife of Bath is trying to do. According to Mary Carruthers' article…

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    My personal favorite constellation is Leo Minor, or "The Lesser Lion". It's genitive name is "Leonis Minoris", and it's short form is "LMi". I have chosen this constellation because it embodies my favorite animal; the lion. There are six stars in this constellation, with four of them being unnamed. This spring constellation's coordinates are Right Ascension 10h, Declination +35°, and has an area of 232 sq degrees.…

    • 210 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    They were given everything possible, unlimited access to their imagination, their hearts desires all in one room, care and nurture but not from their parent. Like many kids at one point they dreamed up a place with no rules, no adults and the want to be free to never grow up is understandable. Even at 10 they are growing up fast going to the carnival alone and asking to go to NY. But the stories endings are much different, in Peter Pan the kids want to go back home to their parent but in The Veldt the children rebel against their parents. In changing the story Bradbury reveals a darker twist to the story. The room embodies their childhood and the lions could represent their anxiety and fear of growing up, so they lash out by having the very thing that scares them kill their…

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Ashunasipal II was one of the great, if not the greatest, king of Assyria and ruled…

    • 1400 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    In his play The Lion and the Jewel, Soyinka expresses his opinions about society through his characters, as many authors do in their writing. One of the characters, Baroka, frequently seeks to take more wives despite his age and subjects his current wives to humiliating tasks such as plucking his armpit hairs and tickling his feet as a way of showing his power over them. Through the characterization of Baroka and the attitudes of other characters in the play, Soyinka explores the idea that a man needs to show dominance over women to be considered a man by society.…

    • 1021 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics