Jack London

Narrative structure This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has…

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water portrays various lives of characters intertwined by the Native American folkloric gods. Lionel Red Dog, a man turning 40 years old attempts to reconstruct his life on a better path while struggling with his identity. As a born Canadian with an Asian ethnicity, my personal reading of Lionel and Charlie’s father Portland Looking Bear highlights their struggle with identity. Although never explicitly stated, the conflicting needs of being an individual and…

Mother of the Pack In Justin Torres’ We the Animals, Ma is a major character that frequently gets dominated and oppressed from either her husband, Paps or the boys. Like a wolf pack, the boys are extremely high maintenance, constantly craving attention and following their father, the alpha male. Inevitably, Ma gets left behind and trampled on. The males of the family’s abuse deteriorate Ma into the shell of a woman, frequently unstable and manipulated. Throughout the novel, Ma’s role as a…

The wind howls like a pack of wolves on the prow, sending chills down spins of all those who face its powerful blows. Through the thin walls and old winds, it seeps into the homes of those who already struggle to stay warm. The wolves go after the weakest of any heard, and humans belong to the list of their victims. This reality lives in the parts of the world that have communist entities as their powerhouses. In the collection of essays, “How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed” by Slavenka…

survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he watched one of the dogs on his team get killed in a fight. “He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought and his first experience taught him an unforgettable lesson. (London 16).” Buck learned not to get knocked down in a fight like that…

In both stories wolves are portrayed as dangerous creatures. Throughout the story of On the Mountain Trail the wolves are chasing after what they think is prey. Then in Law of Life at the end of the story (paragraph 22) the wolves attack him and kill him. The wolves in both stories are portrayed as fierce merciless animals; they are creatures of the wilderness, hunting prey whenever possible. Wolves are not the sociable animals such as dogs that we are so custom, they are deadly in some cases.…

1. In Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, a little boy named Max, after dressing up as a wolf and causing trouble, is sent to his room without supper by his mother. Max dreams that a forest and an ocean have materialized in his room, and he proceeds to sail for “almost over a year” until he encounters an island full of wild things (Sendak). There, he becomes the beasts’ ruler, but loneliness and the smell of food eventually call him back to his room, where he finds his dinner waiting for…

The author of the novel ´Never Cry Wolf´ ,Farley Mowat, uses many instances to convey the point that the wolves of the great north were portrayed as regardless savages that kill for sport, and that this was false and they are peaceful equalizers of the populations to keep the herds healthy. Originally published in 1963, Mowat sets out on his journey after being given honorary doctorates, he arrives at were his study is supposed to begin in the winter of 1948 and it carries on into 1949. In these…

Survival in an extreme environment may be hopeless, but Keesh from “The Story of Keesh” and Pi from “Life of Pi” had the will, courage, and good thinking to survive the extreme environment they were put in. Keesh was able to survive in that extreme cold for 13 years. He was also able to kill bears not just with his strength, but with his brain. Pi was also able to survive in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger on his boat. Pi used his brain to think about where there could be food and…

example, they both save their masters from death, Buck saves John Thorton from drowning, and White Fang saves Jack Conroy when the gold mine caves in and they strike gold. Another example is that both dogs become free after their troubles and hardships.. One example of how they are different is that Buck joins a wolf pack and runs away after his master was killed, but White Fang is set free by Jack Conroy, but gladly returns to him to be his companion for life. Since these events occur, they…