Bluffing Summary

She absorbed her surroundings as she watched the trees rush by. She saw a large buck grazing on a patch of grass and giggled at the tiny chipmunks that seemed to be everywhere. She’d even saw a bear and thought it a little unusual for this time of year, but it was not uncommon. She pumped her legs and extended her stride. Her lungs expanded as they filled with air, her breath quickened as she waited for her second wind.

Relationships are never easy, and as the famous expression goes, it takes two to tango. People often find that If one does not put their time and effort into making the relationship work, then it reveals something about their character. In the short story, “Bluffing”, by Gail Helgason, this is proven to be true. Helgason first drops subtle hints that the antagonist, Liam, is a bad boyfriend; this is confirmed to be true further on in the story. Through many crises and breakthroughs, his reactions reveal his true lousy character.

The protagonist is excited about the hunting trip, but initiates the event with a sense of innocence and curiosity. Another factor in Andy's willingness to go hunting may be in order to please her father or show that she is capable of doing everything a boy can do. While the hunters spend multiple days searching for game, Andy is the only one who comes in contact with the deer. While the characters hunt in the location where Andy saw the deer, Andy prays that they finally get a deer. On a second occurrence, she comes in contact with a deer. This time, the deer does not run away and stays stationary, grazing in the open. When the hunters finally spot the deer, Andy is asked if she wants to shoot it. Initially, she is frightened by the idea, but collapses under the weight of the peer pressure exerted by the impatience of Charlie and the expectancy of her Father. She finally holds the gun in her hand and aims the gun at the doe's chest area. While her mind began to blank out, she stopped thinking about the fact that she had never shot a living creature before and pulled the trigger. After the shot had been made, the doe eventually fell to the snow covered ground, and was assumed dead. Upon seeing the doe laying on the ground, the hunters walked steadily towards it, congratulating Andy for her clean shot. While

Winnie sighed. She had been waiting for Mr. Scamander to come back for a few hours. The minute he had left, she started wandering around, looking at the beautiful, strange creatures around her. But she began to get bored. Not that anyone could get bored of these animals, each one was as fantastic as the one before. She was bored because she was a people person, and she had no one to talk to, unless you counted the jarvey, which Winnie certainly did not. So after a few minutes, she found her way back to the room she had originally fallen into. She sat right beside the ladder, glancing up every few minutes, hoping that he would come. She didn’t know how long it took to get to Saint-Pierre, but she imagined it couldn’t be longer than half a day.

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

The Koyukon Indians must know how to find the bear’s den. The den entrances are hidden beneath 18 inches of powdery snow and are given away to subtle clues that the koyukon are familiar with. One of the clues are patches where no grass protrudes because the bear as clawed it away for insulation and “faint cavities in the ground hinting of the footprint depressions in the moss below ”. After capturing the bear they must kill it in accordance to Koyukon customs and tradition. These rules and customs are set in place for the purpose of not disrupting the bear’s spirit and to show respect for the animal and the environment.

The chief leader sense danger come into his tribe. He warren's all the people of the village that there will be hugs attack coming soon and they should prepared. The woman of the village starting carvin a series of animals in a tree that symbolize peace and protection over their village, these animals were the Eagle, the wolf and the bear.

As the deer fed at the marsh's edge, it's tail flickering as it nibbled tender and ripe green growth. Then the nervous animal pauses in it's feeding and lifted its head to listen. Whatever hint of danger the deer had sensed was ignored once the threat could not be located. It stamped a forefoot, lowered its head and began to eat once more, this deer had failed to detect a Florida panther that was downwind (going into the wind) crouched low in the underbrush. Amber eyes however, estimated the distance between himself and the deer. Then at the right moment attacked the deer, with bounds at over twenty feet at a time the panther exploded out of the underbrush pouncing on the deer and forcing it to the ground. Within fifteen seconds that

Not only have bears discovered fire, they’ve also discovered how to turn it into a weapon. This is unsettling to humans, who are so used to being at the top of the food chain. The policemen who come to collect Mother’s body are also disturbed by the bears’ evolution, Bobby commenting as they “flung their firewood away into the bushes” that “they were like bears themselves” (Bisson). This comment hints at a subtle, but important shift in the story: Bobby’s own attitude toward the

From behind her, Hulga heard a loud grunt. She turned and found herself face to face with a gargantuan bear. Weakened and tired from her journey, Hulga looked in the bear’s eyes with a sense of hopelessness. Certain the bear would kill her, Hulga thought about how rude she was toward her mother and regretted that she hadn't appreciated her mother’s love for her. While she thought, she could feel the bear’s damp nose inspect her face before it suddenly turned and walked away.

The sun peeked its face out on the Canadian wilderness. The light reflected beautifully off the snowy mountains. In fact, the whole wilderness here was covered in a blanket of snow. The snow was littered in fallen pine needles, pine cones, and the footprints of rabbits, wolves and deer. Branches of leafless trees were bending from the snow resting on them. Near one of the trees a bull moose was sharpening his antlers on the trunk, the sharp prongs easily piercing through the bark. When the moose got finished, it soon broke into a sprint when it caught an unfamiliar scent.

While she is scavenging for food with her cubs on the railway she sees the train, using her instincts she “roared” and “charged” at the train (Bear 71,3). Adding her to the statistic, “since 2000... 17 grizzly bears have been killed in the Bow Valley due to railway failure” (Bear 71, 3).  Ultimately knowing the outcome prior due to the statistics, the conductor should have stopped the train when he saw the bear with her cubs. Understanding that bears will protect their cubs.

before they could even come close to the bear. They took a beast of nature to

I perched myself up in a tree stand overlooking a massive river valley. This is the place where deer come down and across in order to get to the fields for feeding. The towering tree stand soared over many small trees. I glanced over the railing, looking down at the snowy forest floor many feet below. It was a frightening height. “Pull your gun up. I’ll work my way back around to try and push some deer

Meeting Zoe is one of the positive things that happen to Finn as a result of his father’s murder investigation. Their paths intersect when Finn is gathering information about Noel from his friends. Zoe and Finn are the first person in each other’s lives that reciprocate the love and affection they have to offer. Unlike Zoe, Noel fails to deliver the In Noel’s case, his drinking addiction and naive optimism of reviving his acting job leave Finn as the caregiving figure and the one responsible for paying most of the bills, struggling to make financial ends meet.