Chapter Summary: How Did The Cat Learn How To Hunt?

The chapters that describe the characters’ pasts make the reader feel as if they are watching that character’s personality develop over their lifetime even though it is only a couple pages. The most enjoyable part was the chapter over Herman Husband that tells about his entire past and how his beliefs and opinions were influenced. I was able to have a closer connection with this character because there was a lot of information given about him. Also because from the author’s perspective he was portrayed as someone brave and understanding. Which is why when the book ended there was a sadness to it, the readers could feel a sense of emotion for the man in the cell and a stronger effect left behind by his parting words. Another enjoyable moment was when the author described the rebels and how people felt when they finally saw them after they were defeated. It created a very vivid image that explained why the people watching felt a sense of disappointment at seeing them. There was a lot of depth over the characters and how each had their part in influencing the Whiskey Rebellion however Hogeland only briefly talks about the last battle of the Rebellion that led to the rebels being captured and forced to walk for miles. More information could have been added to give the reader a better understanding as to why exactly they may have lost or what led the most to their downfall.

One would think that if the pet had a close connection to a person, and that person has passed away that someone who misses the person that has passed may use the pet to help with the loss. The main character’s

Subsequent to being introduced to the animals within the first chapter, there is a major change within their behavior. After reading chapters 2-4, the author utilizes themes such as good versus evil, discovery, and courage and ambition to demonstrate the courage of the animals as they engage in their revolution. Here, the author reveals another side to Mr. Jones and the animals on the farm. To commence, Old Major passes away and his death highly influenced the other animals. Through his elaborate speeches, he encouraged the animals to secretly plan the rebellion, even if they did not know when it is supposed to unfold.

The book starts out with Will the main character traveling to his first assignment as a ranger. 1-“Crowley glared at the young Ranger for a few more seconds, then he couldn’t help the grin breaking out of his face." (23) While he is traveling to his assignment, he finds a dog that is bleeding to death on the side of the road. 2-“The dog, puzzled, whimpered slightly for attention and Alyss stooped to reassure her, ruffling the fur around her ears.” (32) Will then proceeds to take the dog home, and takes care of the dog, he decides to keep the dog as a pet. After he spends a few weeks at Seacliff, where he was assigned, Will realizes that the city has become lazy in the training of its knights and a little lazy in its responsibilities. 3-“Will, his mouth full again, nodded his thanks. Several of the coins into the open mandola case on the table. He noticed that there were quite a few silver coins among the coppers and felt a flush of satisfaction once more.” (57) Just before the end of the month, a Skandian raiding party with about

Domesticated cats are currently spread wide and far across the world, posing as the cute creatures we know them as today, but how did they get there? What exactly did they domesticate from, and in what ways were they transported around the world? In her article, “DNA Tells Tale of How Cats Conquered the World,” Tina Hesman Saey examines and analyzes these questions, using the research and findings from Eva-Maria Geigl, Thierry Grange, and Carlos Driscoll.

The first chapter goes back in history and sets up the story and setting. It was the eighteenth century and the Americans were beginning to invade the lands west of the Mississippi River. This caused problems because even though Americans saw the lands as an unoccupied

My favorite chapter so far was chapter five because Salamano tells Meursault why he bought his dog in the first place. That story made me so sad it was good to know the backstory. The rest of the book has very little emotion and that story is a nice change of pace and topic. That chapter ends with my favorite quote from the whole book so far. Salamano says, “I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine.” I’ve read this quote over and over again and I think I like it because it shows such longing and disappointment. I wonder if Raymond feels the same way about the woman he

In book 1 it starts off by describing a family by the name of the Dursley's and their daily routine. It explains how they are a very normal family

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat immerses the reader into the mind of a murdering alcoholic. Poe himself suffered from alcoholism and often showed erratic behavior with violent outburst. Poe is famous for his American Gothic horror tales such as the Tell-Tale Heart and the Fall of the House of Usher. “The Black Cat is Poe’s second psychological study of domestic violence and guilt. He added a new element to aid in evoking the dark side of the narrator, and that is the supernatural world.” (Womack). Poe uses many of the American Gothic characteristics such as emotional intensity, superstition, extremes in violence, the focus on a certain object and foreshadowing lead the reader through a series of events that are horrifying

By utilizing classic folk tales and various case studies: police files, intellectuals, bourgeois, and most interestingly, the massacre of cats, Darnton attempts to tell a cultural history of pre-Revolution France. He argues that by using an anthropological viewpoint: through the usage of such “unfamiliar(5)” techniques, that he can show how “intellectuals and common people coped with the same sort of problems(7)” as well as give insight into a topic that many people had not yet explored with success: l’histoire des mentalities (history of the ordinary person). He claims that using the atypical sources is a unique approach, and in 1984 (when this was published) he was correct. The usage of varied anthropological study for cultural history would not be effective until the 1990’s, according to Darnton (xvi). Darnton understands the limitations of using such limited sources, and argues that he is not trying to explain all of eighteenth-century thought in France, but rather “provide ways of entering into it (5).”

Overall, the argument of The Great Cat Massacre was that a historian could use the writings of a particular point in history to determine the psychology of the people of that time. In this case, it was of the French people in the decades before the French Revolution. Like Natalie Zemon Davis, Darnton claimed he had the ability to know the mental landscape of the people he studied, understanding their motives based on the few words that were placed before him. But is this determination of a people’s mindset possible? How much of the cat massacre was Darnton’s thoughts and beliefs and how much were of the people he was studying? The truth is that there is no way of knowing what is history and what is Darnton’s perception of history. Like Davis, Darnton ran the fine line of telling history as it was, and using that history to support his own beliefs and opinions, and the critics, as before, had a problem with this practice.

I love the way the author represents the wild life. The wild life actually seems like our society in some ways. I think that the characters would do anything that it takes to overcome their problems, just like in our community. For example, I could see how the wolves were trying to survive and not to die from hunger. Also, it was really impressive how Henry and Bill tried to protect themselves from the wolves. I was getting curious about how they thought they were going to get away alive from a pack of forty wolves. It seemed pretty hard to me. Anyway, I was surprised as how the group remained. The six dogs and Bill got caught by the wolves and Henry ended up by himself. I thought this was a very good example

My opinion about chapter two is that it worse than chapter one. I hated it when Curly died when she was just trying to be nice. I disliked it when Buck and Spitz got into a fight. I liked it when it said buck got stronger and smarter. I also liked it when Buck joined the other dogs to howl at the northern lights.

The psychology or mental state of the narrator of Edger Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” is a broad area to analyze. The human mind is one of the most articulate system that is made in this world. It’s difficult to understand everybody’s actions and doings because everyone possesses their own unique patterns of thinking. Today, the world of psychology is hard at work to try to figure out the best answers to the questions we have about the mid. Even before the subject of psychology was produced, some writers loosely described the psychology and everything that goes into it. Edger Allan Poe was one of them who portrayed his characters in way that the reader could look further in to their actions and their behaviors to understand the mind better. Poe seemed to have an understanding and fascination for the human, and “The Black Cat” is one of them. The protagonist of the story and his psychology has brought into light in this short story. In this work, Edgar Allan Poe presents the main character, the protagonist, who becomes victim to many complex mind issues such as guilt, perversity, superstitions, revenge, and reverse psychology.

Joshua Gardner 1 Feb 2018 2nd Block How the Leopard got its Claws “How the Leopard got its Claws” is a story that tells the reader how the leopard's difficult journey of betrayal and vengeance changed his appearance on the outside as well as who he was on the inside. At the beginning of the story, the leopard is a gentle ruler. It can be inferred that this gentleness is displayed through his outward appearance.