Blackthorn Research Papers

terror. The thing was almost upon me, and I had no way to escape. Still I pushed myself up and

Suddenly the growling was even more intense. It was menacing. Turning around thorough the glass window and darkness of night Caroline saw a pair of icy blue illuminating eyes staring back at her. Before she could calculate what was going on a large black wolf came through the glass window shattering it and a sharp pain dug in her neck and every thing went black.

I woke up on the very edge of my bed my blankets tossed on the floor and my head buried into a pillow. I groaned as I pushed myself off the bed picking up the blankets and laying them on the mattress. I stretched my arms and yawned as I walked over to my bathroom and twisting the knobs trying to find a perfect temperature.

up on the edge. Once again the sun had crept up my body and this time

The pain was overpowering, but I couldn't let it take hold. I couldn't let it bury me. My thoughts were racing, but I had to make it go away. I couldn't let it break

When you think of the wolf do you think of a blood thirsty, savage killer? Let me show you the misconceptions that has deceived you for so long. Farley Mowat, the author of Never Cry Wolf, which was published in 1663, is a biologist that was sent to the subarctic Barren Lands. He was sent there by the by the Canadian government to study the wolf and to investigate why the cariboo numbers were plundering in other words the lupine project. The wolves were the first suspect of the crime. As he spends his time in the tundra the author shines light on how the wolves aren't so vicious after all. The real ones to blame were the trappers and trophy hunters. Mowat uses logos, pathos, and ethos to inform the reader that wolves aren't the blood thirsty killers they have been thought to be for so long.

We kept walking. I jumped every time I heard leaves cracking that were not ours. The wind blew harder as we walked. I suddenly wished I had brought a coat.

The wolf was once a much slandered animal. In the western world, people feared and hated wolves, and this legacy is reflected in stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. In these popular children's tales the wolf is made out to be a prowler and a killer of livestock and people. There is some basis for The Boy Who Cried Wolf, for wolves have killed cattle and sheep. But what of Little Red Riding Hood? There are no records of wolves killing humans in Canada or the United States. Yet, when wolves were spotted near rural communities, fear used to grip the populace, but over time this has become less prevalent.

closed the door behind myself. I looked up at the wall and saw a picture of my mother,

Incidents involving werewolves that have been reported throughout history provide proof that werewolves could have existed. Reports of werewolves have been dating as far back as 1521. One particular case involves a man being attacked by a wolf in Poligny, France. The man injured the creature, and soon later saw a man who had a similar wound that resembled the one he had given the wolf. The injured man eventually was

I gasped for air between sobs. Tears from my wide, moistened eyes streamed unchecked down my pale

This is about a boy who has gone camping on the woods during winter time. He finds out that his friend is missing and he goes into the woods in search of his friend following his foot prints. Then there he saw footprints of one wolf later followed by the second wolf. Then various thoughts are going through his mind and he even thinks that his friend is dead. But later on he finds that, there is a foot print of third wolf while following his friends' foot prints further. Then, there he finds a suprising scenenaro as he don't find any sign of his friend being dead and thinks that his friend has became a wolf.

The story begins when a pack of wolves follow 2 men and their sled dogs. The pack is starving and suffering a famine. They have to eat all of the sled dogs and Billy. They were going to eat Henry but then a 4 groups near by was walking and saw Henry trying to escape the wolves than scurried off. Later in the book it talks about the she-wolf ( White Fang’s mom) having 5 cubs. Only one survives the rest die of starvation. A man named Grey Beaver recognizes she-wolf and her cub. Grey Beaver takes White Fang and his mom in. White Fang isn’t liked in the camp so he has to fight a lot. In the middle of the book White Fangs mom was sold to another Indian camp. White Fang was purchased by a Beauty Smith ( Beauty Smith makes dogs fight each other).

He was found essentially as a wolf, deemed to be the “wolf boy”, even taking part in the membership of his pack. He walked primarily on all fours, and had sharpened his teeth into long fangs. He functioned completely as a wild animal when he was taken to a hospital for treatment, but managed his escape before the doctors even got to him. They haven’t been able to find him since.

After all it was dark but she was still able to arrive since the lights of her grandmother’s house were on. She knocks the door and wait, five minutes later she knocks again and waits, no one replied so she went through the back door and got in the house, but when she arrived at her grandmother’s room she found… THE WOLF! One of her biggest enemy. freaking out she didn’t know what to do or where to go but it seems like the wolf did not have any intention of wanting to eat her so, this is when the story begins.