The Lowest Animal Summary

Two articles, The Lowest Animal and A Time of Gifts. Both written wonderfully, but both with different ideals and views. Mark Twain, author of The Lowest Animal, believes that human nature is cruel and unforgiving, that man does things out of hatred and cruelty. Our other author, Stephen Jay Gould, who wrote A Time of Gifts believes that for every one wrong a human does, will be replaced by ten thousand acts of kindness. As you can see, both authors have very different points to be made, but I agree more or less with Mark Twain on this one. Most of the time humans are cruel, whether we see and recognize it or not. Now let’s move on to Mark Twain’s point.

First, we start with Mark Twain’s main point. Mark Twain’s point to be made in his writing is that man sometimes does things out of cruelty for no real reason at all. When Mark Twain compares Humans to Animals, he shows a great difference between man and animal. For Example in the book Mark Twain talks about an English Earl, who had seventy-two Buffalo killed and only ended up eating a portion of one and leaving the rest to rot in a field. He explained that this is an act of cruelty for man, but then goes on to state that had an Anaconda was in a
Gould states that for everyone one act of hatred, ten thousand acts of kindness will take it’s place. For an example, Gould uses ground zero or nine eleven. For such a big act of hatred against a large range of people, everyone banded together after that to mend the wounds. Strangers who had no idea who each other were banded together as an act of kindness, which then spawned even more acts of kindness. Kids were making drawings, delivering snacks, offering their prayers to those who had fallen in the act of terrorism. Gould uses a good example to show how, when man is faced with hard times, they can band together and make an unbearable time, bearable again. Now let's talk about my stance on who I think is