Essay On The Hunt By Josephine Donovan

The hunting of animals is an activity that many people all around the world participate in. However, in the story The Hunt by Josephine Donovan, the hunting of animals is banned and humans hunt each other for sport instead. The narrator is one of these hunters and he describes his feelings in great and uncensored detail. Through the use of detailed language, the hunting of humans is described to force the reader to feel disgust. This feeling comes from how the narrator talks about women, as if they are beneath men, his joy in hunting humans and how he treats the humans whose lives he’s taken. The first thing that disgusts the reader is the way women are talked about in the story, as if they are beneath men. In the story, the narrator says …show more content…
The narrator thinks of them as trophies. In the story, he says, “I caught sight of a figure running up the trail and aimed at his back. Bam. I hit. The head should be ok, I thought with glee, so I’d have my trophy” (Donovan 260). When reading this quote, it is apparent that he does not care that he has just murdered another person and that all he’s worried about is his “trophy”, which is in fact, another humans head, which he will mount on his wall. This is another way he will disrespect the person who he has killed. After he collects the body, he says, “Jed tied the old buck to the right fender of his car and I tied the doe to the left. Some people, I know, object to the custom of tying human bodies to the car that way, but how else could you get your trophies home” (Donovan 260). He once again refers to the person he killed as a trophy, and disrespects them by attaching them to the outside of the car, which something controversial in the setting of the story that he knows people disagree to. The fact that the narrator acts extremely disrespectfully towards the people he kills, without feeling bad about it, causes the reader to feel an extreme sense of