Analysis Of H Is For Hawk, By Helen Macdonald

Where the Wild Things Are, a children’s book written by Maurice Sendak, is not only directed to young children, but has an underlying message that is intended for older generations to receive. This message, only used to enhance the meaning of the story, describes the addiction for one to have power and be in control. As the story goes on, the realization sets in that maybe the desire for power is not the best, at all times. The use of oppression becomes evident in this story, through Max, the main character, as he strives to control everything around him. Maurice Sendak uses repetition and parallelism in the imagery and text of Where the Wild Things Are to show Max’s progression to assume power and eventually discard it.

Betty Mae Jumper retells three Seminole legends: “Two Hunters”, “Alligator”, and “The Little Turtle and the Wolf”. In them she expresses an evident respect for nature among the characters. She makes it abundantly clear by presenting a value for animals, displaying the strengths of the underprivileged or weaker opponent, and exhibiting respect for each component that makes up the large body that is the environment.

Throughout the novel many animal sounds are described to the reader such as the “prairie wolves howling” (McCarthy 44), and the “snarling of flies” (McCarthy 45). There are animals who do not make sounds but are present and seen by the characters also such as the wild pigs and numerous birds (McCarthy 44). The animals’ presence reminds the reader that the landscape is not vacant and there are other signs of life out there.

The poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver connects the both the natural and human world as it compares human life to the travels of wild geese. Touching on the landscapes of the natural world and emotions faced by the average person; Oliver manages to use devices such as tone, metaphors and descriptive images to convey a message that helps a person view life from a different perspective. Oliver makes it clear that the relationship between the wild and the human is coexistence; where one universe continues on if the parallel seems to have stopped. Thus, Oliver is able to move the reader on a comforting journey as she entangles the natural world and human world, showing that the natural world has more

"The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane is classic short piece written in 1899. A time when Naturalism became a concept of much influence. Naturalism, an outgrowth of Realism, is a movement in literature that seeks to capture a believable everyday reality. This often portrays the darker side of human nature and the harshness of life; including poverty, racism, prejudice, disease, prostitution, filth, etc. Although “The Blue Hotel” is extremely well done, it was slow to start and has a weak ending.

"London is a tremendously talented writer and his understanding of life matches his tremendous knowledge of the snow-enshrouded world of the upper latitudes. His writing is beautiful, poignant, and powerful, yet also somber, morose, and infinitely real. This isn't a story to read when you are depressed. Although The Call of the Wild is a short novel and on the surface a dog's story, it contains as much truth and reality of man's own struggles as that which can be sifted from the life's work of many other respected authors. The story he tells is stark and real, and as such, it is not pretty picture he paints, nor an elevating story he writes.

D: In the world of British literature, the wilderness is considered as “the unknown”. By being on the outskirts of civilization, it’s a place that is mystical, mysterious, and terrifying all at once, which is why humans don’t intentionally go near it because they don’t know what lurks within its borders. In the case of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Whoso List to Hunt, the wilderness serves as the perfect place for both his pursuits of hunting and “hunting”. By being a secluded place, it allows Wyatt to do his hunt for the hind he seeks. It’s also mystical because it’s the only place where he can find this hind and continuously chase it to no end. The terrifying concept is that anything no one know what the wilderness will reveal once someone enters into

Kite discuss the terminology that she use in her class vital to discussing diversity: (1) “Ethnophaulisms or ethnic slurs, (2) Outdated terms, which in today’s language are considered offensive but the speaker is likely unaware of this, and (3) Preferred terms, which reflect the language social group members choose to label their own group, such as Asian-American, blind person or gay” (Kite, 2015, p. 2). She further states that these terms are unlikely to be discussed in the classroom. When these terms are discussed in academic and many other settings, they are often referred to by their capitalized first letter, because of the discomfort many people have about using the full term in any

“Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland!” Joel Meerks heard the ringing from the barn a few hundred metres away. He was quite taken aback by the clarity of the chant, considering the sturdy walls of the faded burgundy building would have never allowed for such a distinct sound to pass through. Joel stood there on his hind legs for at least two minutes, mentally separating from reality as his soul was truly touched by the unity portrayed within the song. Although he hadn’t been present in the meeting, he regretted missing out, and was anticipating the conclusion of the gathering to ask Old Benjamin what had occurred. It was an unusual friendship, for a meerkat like Joel to befriend such a soulless donkey like Ben. In reality, the old mule had

The path of natural evolution is not easy for the land or for Alexandra Bergson. The land must accept the changes created by mankind in order to become prominent. Nature endures the “sharp crack from the gun” (96) as man becomes the predator of all animals. The key to evolution is held by Alexandra, and the key is to preserve the beautiful nature rather than defiling it. Alexandra preserves the life of her hogs by building “a shed to give them shade, get them off the old stinking ground, and give them only grain and clean feed” (34). This attracts criticism from the society as many homesteaders are close-minded and don’t believe in Alexandra. It is tough for Alexandra because she lacks the necessary support of her older brother, Lou and Oscar

Most Canadian filmmakers continuously depict the place as a wilderness area, filled with wild animals and Indigenous people. This idea is socially constructed and is normalize to reinforce the idea that certain people and animals should belong or excluded from nature and urban spaces. In parks, wolf tourism is usually portrayed as a wilderness experience where humans dominate animals and nature. Yet, according to Kellert’s (1985) research, associating the wilderness with wolves has increased their stigmatization, thus resulting conflicts over who belongs where. If the wolves are not exterminated, they are instead taken from their natural environment and moved to an “altered” landscape where they have

The duality of London’s The Call of the Wild narrator, Buck, is a manifestation of an inner battle between established civilization and ancestral savagery. Buck is a dog in his prime who had known nothing but a life of leisure in the time just before the Yukon Gold Rush. He lived like royalty at Judge Miller’s place “...in the sun-kissed santa-clara valley.” However, when men find a yellow metal in the mountains, Buck becomes extremely valuable. He is stolen from the lap of luxury, sold, and flung into the wilderness of the Yukon territory where survival depends upon adaptability.

Upon studying children’s literature, one is likely to notice that throughout various texts, there are a number of common and recurring elements. One theme that is present in many stories is that of jungles and forests (for the purposes of this paper, these will be discussed as if they were one in the same). In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, we see both jungles and forests represented in different ways, however it can be argued that they serve similar functions in both texts. In both stories, forests and jungles are treated as liminal spaces, as a sort of limbo between one state of being and another. In The Jungle Books, the jungle that Mowgli and the animals live in is portrayed as the threshold at which the laws of man end and the laws of nature begin, while in Through the Looking-Glass, forests are portrayed as obstacles through which one must pass in order to reach a destination. Mowgli fulfils his destiny within the jungle by being raised there, while Alice passes through several forests in order to reach her place as queen on the chess board. Thus, forests and jungles in both texts function not only as liminal spaces, but as transformative agents which mold the protagonist into the person they must be in order to succeed in their story.

The two stories’ forested settings share a sense of solitude and enormity in which the characters confront a moral split. Goodman Brown enters the forest near his Puritan town noticing that the trees “closed immediately behind” him as he is overcome by the “peculiarity in such a solitude” that characterizes the forest. As for O’Brien, he takes immediate note of the “great permanent stillness” that stretches over the U.S.-Canadian wilderness and comments on its “unpeopled rawness.” Initially, their isolation provides a contemplative environment to ponder the decisions ahead of them—in these places untouched by man, they have the illusion of confronting their problems without societal pressures. However, their communities’ expectations echo in both of their minds: Goodman Brown insists that “We are a people in prayer” in reference to his fellow Puritans, and O’Brien can’t take his mind off of the “hot, stupid shame” that comes from his family and friends’ opinions of him. Neither

When summer would come they cycled the five miles to Hainault Forest to pick blackberries. But they would often come across little glades with no trees. They were intensely lit by the rays of the summer sun, like small islands of happiness, not enough to make them too hot from the fullness of sunlight, but enough to bathe his face and arms in their warmth. And just when it was getting too hot, he could again dive into the pool of fresh, moist greens of the forest. Sean had always appreciated nature, its perfection and knew that it was his guide. From young he observed that birds would only live with other birds and the possums would only live with other possums.