I read Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, I have chosen to answer the questions, Characters and Significance of Title. I chose characters because the characters in this book were all dealt with, it followed one main character, June, and her thoughts but each character wasn’t just a character. They all had their own conflicts and problems and they all tie into each others stories. I found it very interesting. I chose the title significance due to how it played into the book. It took a long time for the wolves to be brought up, and when it was, I was deeply affected.
June had always gone into the forest behind her house, and close her eyes. She would hear howling and pretend it was wolves, she made believe that she was in medieval times, and …show more content…
She pictured herself dying at the claws of those wolves. Due to this, her uncle Finn had titled his last painting, which was a portrait of June and Greta, Tell
The Wolves I’m Home. It all changed for her when Ben, a boy who seemed to have a crush on her, visited her after school. “Some people complained about dogs getting into their garbage cans, and when the animal patrol came and saw what was going on out there, they shot them. all of them. you're lucky you were never attacked out there”(Brunt 324). The “wolves” were just feral dogs. At this point in her life she lost Toby, and she was terrified at what would happen to him. She lost her wolves, and she knew why, but couldn’t accept it. Exactly how she, and her sister and mother both changed the painting. It would never be the same. “How about just
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leaving them alone?” “Consider yourself lucky, that’s all I have to say.” “I don’t. I don't consider myself lucky at all, because there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place”(Brunt 324).
The characters in this story are dynamic, the characters all change throughout the story.
Especially Finn and Toby, because they die. Characters are revealed when June is with them,
June had always gone into the forest behind her house, and close her eyes. She would hear howling and pretend it was wolves, she made believe that she was in medieval times, and …show more content…
She pictured herself dying at the claws of those wolves. Due to this, her uncle Finn had titled his last painting, which was a portrait of June and Greta, Tell
The Wolves I’m Home. It all changed for her when Ben, a boy who seemed to have a crush on her, visited her after school. “Some people complained about dogs getting into their garbage cans, and when the animal patrol came and saw what was going on out there, they shot them. all of them. you're lucky you were never attacked out there”(Brunt 324). The “wolves” were just feral dogs. At this point in her life she lost Toby, and she was terrified at what would happen to him. She lost her wolves, and she knew why, but couldn’t accept it. Exactly how she, and her sister and mother both changed the painting. It would never be the same. “How about just
Swensrud
leaving them alone?” “Consider yourself lucky, that’s all I have to say.” “I don’t. I don't consider myself lucky at all, because there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place”(Brunt 324).
The characters in this story are dynamic, the characters all change throughout the story.
Especially Finn and Toby, because they die. Characters are revealed when June is with them,