Hunter: A Fictional Narrative

On Saturday, June 26, 2000, horrifying events happened to a group of teenagers in a large mansion. This mansion is said to be the most haunted building in all of Oklahoma. Emma, Noah, Olivia, and Daniel had a rough night. It caused a lot of dreadful memories that will be penetrated in their minds forever. These kids just might find themselves in a situation.

“Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff uses Kenny, Frank, Tub, and the dog to respectively symbolize Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, to emphasize how maltreatment of others leads to loss. Before Kenny’s entered their lives, Frank and Tub were close friends. Kenny isolated the two so that they could not team up against him. He cleaves the two, by describing Tub offensively as “wasting away” before urging Frank to also humiliate Tub (Wolff 88). Kenny provokes the two to keep Frank on his own side, against Tub. This enforces Kenny’s representation of the horseman of Pestilence, or the Conqueror. Pestilence is described as the destroyer of opposition. A reformed friendship between Frank and Tub could oppose Kenny’s reign, which is why he works to destroy it.

One hour later the little girl falls once again. She gets back up and has a big grin on her face she laugh an evil laugh. She walks to her mom and says

It was the summer of 1983; I was reading my first Horror novel by Jay Anson “The Amityville Horror”, it was the scariest thing I had ever picked up. Despite the late hours I continued to read into the early morning hours until my eyes burned for relief. Whenever I got up to use the rest room I would stand on the end of my bed lean over and open the door and jump so not to be grabbed by monsters that might be laying in wait under my bed. This started a long love affair for horror stories.

Theme is developed in the story, “Hunters in the Snow,” by Tobias Wolff by creating a main idea that being selfish to others will not solve your problems. In a story, theme is the controlling idea or its central idea. This main idea is developed throughout the story by creating a storyline in which a group of boys go on a hunting trip meant to bring them together through the harsh tasks, but fails to do so creating an opposite reaction. “You shouldn't have just left me back there like that” (Wolff 83). This is a quote made by Tub, a character in the story who was falling behind from the group because they were walking to fast for him to keep up. This did not help the boys

There are numerous elements in Tobias Wolf’s short story ‘’ Hunters in the Snow ‘’. To start off, there is a problematic friendship going on between a group of men. These ‘’ friends ‘’, Frank and Kenny, seem to constantly ridicule and tear down their insecure friend Tub. After a series of unusual events Tub ends up shooting Kenny during their hunting trip. Shortly after this peculiar incident Frank and Tub seem to grow closer and begin to confide to each other about some disturbing things that are occurring in their personal lives. For instance, Frank plans on leaving his wife for a 15 year old girl and Tub had been lying to his wife about his ‘’ bad glands ‘’ and is actually overweight on purpose. These confessions are not only uncalled for but they reveal to the reader some important qualities about these two particular characters. Frank, for starters, might enjoy taking advantage of people. The girl he is ‘’ in love ‘’ with is only 15 she has never had any kind of independence, and she cannot even fathom what the real world is like which makes her easy to control. So

A child’s cry rings out. As my eyes light up, a soft skinned, blond haired angel is carefully placed in my cradled arms. As he coos softly, latching onto my finger, I begin to fall in love. His bright blue eyes open, staring at me with nothing but pure love and wonder. I clutch him to my chest, vowing to never let anything hurt him.

This passage describes Isaac’s emotions as he enters the forest for the first time. Ever since he was born, he was destined to be a great hunter. However, he never mustered up the courage to do so before he was ten so he never truly felt what it was like to become a man. He had never lived his true life up to this point. As he goes into the forest, he feels as if he is watching his true self be born. Bringing back big game trophy and meat from the forest was the pinnacle of a hunter’s life. Now that he is truly born, he can live the rest of his life as a hunter with a sense of fulfillment.

Guns were never a significant part of my childhood. At least, that was how it was until I saw the innocent life of a deer taken by the quick blow of hunting rifle.

A person named Rainsford a good hunter, he was the best hunter into any city, until Ralf came into his life and showed him who he really was, Ralf was a guy and he was really tough and had more experience to hunt anything, Rainsford became like a level of water or a population it went down, Rainsford was the greatest hunter but his opponent came in his life. Ralf plan make a the plan was to teach Rainsford how a real hunter looks and acts and actually really hunts. Ralf started showing Rainsford how a real hunter was, he showed him how to act and how to be tough with the type he was going to attack. Ralf hunted more likely more than Rainsford,

A man named Rainsford a big game hunter goes overboard on his yacht and finds himself on ship-trap island. He then meets another game hunter named general Zaroff. This man is a little different from your normal hunter this man hunts men. The next day general Zaroff lets Rainsford go only so he can hunt him. Rainsford takes off into the forest. Rainsford builds a man catcher, Burmese tiger-pit, and a knife trap killing one of Zaroff’s dogs and Ivan and even wounding General Zaroff himself. Rainsford then dives into the sea making General Zaroff think he has won the game and goes to his bed. As General Zaroff is in his bed Rainsford confronts him. Rainsford is now sleeping in General Zaroff’s

I really didn't like Hunter all that much, as you can tell from past events but 50% of my grade depending on him so I'm going to be as cordial as possible.  I really had no place to snap on Hunter the way I did. It just took me back to a bad time in my life where I'm from. I grew up in a terrible neighborhood in Detroit but I was always expected to do well. My mother was a drug addicted prostitute but my father was an engineer who took custody of me when I was 5. He put me in private schools to separate me from the neighborhood, there I learned more than I would have in public school, later having an almost perfect score on my SATs and ACTs and ended becoming valedictorian and student body Vice President with a picture in the yearbook voting me as 'Most Likely to Succeed'.

In my opinion, hunter is someone who physically understands myths and sage understands myths through outside prospective. On one side, viewing myths from the hunters prospective gives them an advantage since they can fully gain an understanding of it. Next, looking at a myth from sage prospective is beneficial because it allows the person to look inwards at a myth. It creates a room for criticism and sometimes even objectivism. As Doniger states, “a hunter is the person who cannot get insider other peoples’ heads and so is driven by his emotions to go on being reborn himself over and over again, in order to have the series of experiences that are necessary prerequisite for enlightenment. But the sage, who can go inside other people mentally,

Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill is told from the perspective of Britta Flannery. Britta is a young girl who is only seventeen years old. She is described as pale with freckles, but she is too thin from months of almost starving. She also has some unique abilities that allow her to tell if someone is lying or telling the truth. Her back ground attributes to her personality. She is awkward around people and more comfortable in the woods while tracking people or animals. She was raised by her father who is a bounty hunter for the king so she was raised in the woods and has her father’s skills. She is ostracized from society since her mother came from another kingdom and she is considered a bastard since Malam, her current home, did not recognize