Analysis Of The Book ' Hunters On The Snow ' By Tobias Wolff

David Ives’ “The Blizzard” does a good job of making people analyze their selves and their everyday life. His drama has the capabilities of making people ask many questions about themselves. Why do I follow a routine? Why do I settle for the same things over and over again? How do I break this cycle? What could I be doing differently with my life? It makes many people realize just how routine oriented they are. It also brings to light the fear and unwillingness to change that some people have.

In Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Hunters in the Snow”, three friends, Kenny, Tub, and Frank, go hunting in the woods in Spokane, Washington. When they cannot find any game, Kenny shoots a tree, a fence post, a dog, and acts as if he is about to shoot Tub. Tub shoots Kenny first in defense, wounding him from walking any further. On the ride back, Kenny ends up dying due to Frank and Tub’s inattention to him. The interactions between each character when forced into different circumstances reveal the theme that people are typically selfish and will tend to side with the strongest and most advantageous party.

In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he goes on to tell a story about a young man’s journey to find himself. Chris Mccandless, is determined to find himself despite that he is not fully prepared in the Alaskan wilderness. The way Krakauer writes Into the Wild is an adventure itself because even though we are fully aware of the ending, he gives a rich story on how Christopher found himself there.

Forbidden love, unity, and chance are just a few things Guterson uses symbolism to portray throughout his book, Snow Falling on Cedars. A hollow cedar tree, strawberry fields, and a major snowstorm are just three of the many examples of symbolism used throughout this book. A hollow cedar tree represents forbidden love, secrecy, and lies. The strawberry fields exemplify unity, hard work, and a brighter future. Finally the major snow storm evokes chance, something uncontrollable, and lastly realization. So how exactly did symbolism portray such things throughout this novel?

People believe that humans that control and make their own decision in their life. The story "into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer, a non-fiction story following the path of Chris McCandless, this shows how you control your life and chose your path. "the Sport Gene" by David Epstein, a non-fiction story proving a point, and shows how a genetic improvement can increase your physical ability. According to Krakauer, you will have full control of your life and the path you choose. The sport gene contradicts having full control of life when genes can increase physical ability.

The author writes a cute and comical essay remembering her teenage years listening to stories told to her by her Grandfather and then a happenstance meeting with a supposed Hee Haw Honey in a Waffle House in Erlanger, KY later in her life. In her adult life she was a reporter at one point and then switched to writing creative nonfiction, this piece of work is a creative tie between the two worlds bonding fact with fiction. She knew the stories told by her Grandfather were all fictional and she grew to distaining lies in general, large or small. Her dilemma is that her Grandfather made up stories but ends up writing about him and how she responds when faced with a person who is flat out lying

On June 13, 1971, the New York Times headline read, “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement”. Days earlier, Daniel Ellsberg provided the newspaper with excerpts from a 7,000-page classified study that became known as the Pentagon Papers. Just over 20 years later, moose hunters found the decaying remains of an adventurer in the Alaskan wilderness. The remains were concluded to be those of Chris McCandless, an affluent 20-something from Virginia, who wound up dead following his two-year long self-righteous odyssey. Author Jon Krakauer wrote an article on McCandless for Outside magazine, which later disseminated into a novel titled Into the Wild. At a glance, McCandless and Ellsberg may seem like polar

This symbol is more represented in the story when the man is walking along the creek and he notices no signs or anything that would show where he would be able to fall through and he did that, he fell through the ice and into the creek. Only knee deep yet still dangerous for the weather conditions he is in. Later on when the man builds a fire to warm himself back up and dry his shoes and socks from when he fell through, he managed to knock snow off of the branches and the snow fell right onto the fire and put it out. “There did not seem to be so many pools of water under the snow on the left side of Henderson Creek, and for half an hour the man saw no signs of any. And out of nowhere it happened. At a place where there were no signs, the man broke through. It was not deep. He was wet from the knees down before he got out of the water to the firm snow” (London 70-71). This illustrates the theme of since the man is used to noticing little pools under the snow, he knows where not to step and where to avoid it. Finally in a spot with no pools or any signs, he fell through the ice and into the water. Even though it was from the creek in which the man fell through in was only knee deep, that is extremely dangerous situation for the man especially in the kind of weather that he is in. Just as snow representing death, another symbol used in To Build A Fire is the boys at the camp

Within the first few sentences of the story, we are introduced to this symbol, as it starts off, “He was not interested in the snow. When he got off the freight, one early evening during the depression, Sargeant never even noticed the snow” (Hughes1) Tired and hungry Sargeant was unaware of where he was; he had just gotten off a freight train in Reno, Nevada. Reno, which happened to be an all “white” city at that time. It is here that, Hughes uses the “whiteness” of the snow to symbolize the “whiteness” of the all-Caucasian community.

Ice-nine is definitely the biggest symbols in the book. It shows that when Felix made it he made it to help the military get around easier but one little accident, the plane breaking down and hitting the castle. It could’ve hit anything but it was the castle that it hit which caused “Papa’s” corpse to fly out and create the next ice age. Nobody had started out with the intention to end the world and all human life but it still ended up happening only because of one small accident. It symbolizes that even if you have the best intentions things can always go wrong without anybody’s say in

What I think is that I read and it has not told me yet what the blood in the snow is. At one point in the book there is a sentence that says “ There's no way I could have seen the blood in this the snow.” I would normally assume that this means that Someone has died or was beaten up brutally. but with this book I figured it was something else. I think it might have been the fact that Tim is albino he could have gotten injured, but it might be the fact that we don't know very much about Vanessa and she should have some mental disease or internal disease that we don't necessarily know about. I would guess it has to be either Tim, the main-ish character of this book who is albino and has lied to Vanessa about not going to Irving, Or it

Jack London was an American novelist who wrote To Build a Fire. It takes place somewhere along the paths of the Yukon wilderness. The story revolves around the protagonist who is a guy just referred to as “the man.” The man sets off on a journey on a frigid day with the idea that he will meet his friends by suppertime. However, his lack of wherewithal for cold and his overwhelming optimism about his situation leads him to a point of no return. As the man’s journey evolves, so does the parable-like morals’. Some being respect your elders and another being a man must be careful when trying to go against nature. I will argue that the moral of the story is to always trust your gut. I will prove this by honing in on specific points of the story where this theme occurs.

The most seen symbol is death, there is mentions for example of the cypress tree where they kill the pigs, the blood in the eggs, the circling buzzards. If all those references to death was not enough for you at the end of every chapter, excusing the last one, was death. At the end of chapter one Gabilan died “The first buzzard sat on the pony’s head its beak had just risen dripping with dark eye fluid,” (p.36), at the end of chapter two you are led to believe Easter and Gitano died, and at the end of chapter three Nellie died “ He lifted the skin and drove the knife in,” (p.78). Overall Steinbeck obviously wanted the reader to understand this was a dramatic book about a maturing boy and there was bound to be

Joyce uses the symbol of snow to illuminate the variety of traits, both positive and negative that represent impairments of humanity, while still allowing for the fluorescent elegance of existence. “Yes the newspapers were right. Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plains, on the treeless hills…and farther westward” (Joyce 223). Joyce’s intentions with the use of snow arguably uncovers the symbol as effecting all of nature, and furthermore represents the defects of Gabriel’s which in turn depicts the overarching faults of humanity.

Cold Mountain a novel written by Charles Frazier, the book gets it’s name from a town that Inman and Ada two of the most important characters meet up in. This novel takes place in 1864, about three years after the Civil War had began. The Civil War starts for a few reasons, but the biggest reason was slavery. Throughout the story Frazier explains the hardships of the Confederate troops. Inman who has fought as a soldier in the Confederate Army will give people a slight glimpse of how the soldiers lived and fought during the Civil War. This novel also is wrote in a style that the author has put together the story of Ada and Inman into one big story. To start off, the author explains that Ada is left high and dry with nothing after her father passed away, and that Inman is a confederate soldier just trying his best to stay alive.