The Wolf And The Kid Sparknotes

Chrysocyon brachyurus, more commonly known as the Maned Wolf, is one of the more peculiar canids residing in South America. While this animal may be classified as a wolf, it has several differences in behavior and habitat than its North American and European counterparts Amusingly dubbed the “fox on stilts” the maned wolf is the largest canid of South America with a more slender body plan giving the animal a slender almost gangly appearance. The species is known to dwell in savannah type habitats mostly in isolation until their breeding season sets in. The animals are omnivorous sticking to small mammals and vegetation they pose little to know throat to humans, however these animals are still subject to reduced mortatlity rates, putting them in a “near threatened” category. Unfortunately, there is only a limited amount of research available regarding the maned wolf, leaving a few holes to be filled in their profile.

The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as

The Child by Tiger is a short story written by Thomas Wolfe. The moral of his story is that everything has a good and evil side. The story is narrated by a 35 year old man, known as Spangler, who reflects back on 25 years ago to where he met a man named Dick Prosser. Overtime as events took place, Dick became a major life lesson in Spangler 's life. Dick Prosser is a developing character in this story based on his skills developed over time, and religious motivation.

Self preservation and personal comfort, another consistent theme throughout the story is continuously perpetuated as generation-after-generation of residents are introduced to the unspeakable treatment of this helpless child. Ironically when first exposed to the atrocity, most children were more disgusted and outraged by the horrible predicament of the child than the adults who by all accounts should have been responsible for its protection. This obvious moral role reversal signifies a purity and innocence that is often present in a child’s perspective that is untarnished by corrupt societal teachings and norms. Additionally, the comparison between the moral integrity of

The author did an excellent job of making the story somewhat easy to understand and fun to read. By picking a child to tell the story, it was easier to read between the lines and find the real meaning of what was being said.

Many short stories have been written throughout time. Many are just for entertainment, but many of them are for teaching a lesson. Little Red Riding Hood was written partly to teach a lesson. In France, a girl that loses her virginity is said to have “seen a wolf.” That is what this story is based on. Little Red Riding Hood is about a little girl that runs in to a wolf in the forest as she is on her way to her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother was ill and her mother baked some food to make her feel better, in which Little Red Riding Hood was taking to her grandmother. When she met the

We are going to use Charles Perrault’s 1697 story of “Little Red Riding Hood” as our baseline because it is the oldest known modern version (Zipes et. al. 339). This is the classic tale we all know; Little Red Riding Hood is tricked by the wolf, and bad things happen at Grandma’s house. What sets the original story apart from other early versions of the story is the moral at the end, which states

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

His actions also reflect his sympathy and regret for the wolf—he closes her eyes with his thumb, a sign of respect for the dead. He puts his hands to her forehead and imagines her alive—accompanied by “starlight” and the “sun’s coming”, dispelling the night / his regret. The language here is descriptive, upbeat even; in contrast to the simple, unelaborate diction of before. The wolf is seen as one of “all nations of the possible world ordained by God.” Her running freely causes “the cries of the coyotes” to clap “shut as if a door had closed upon

McCarthy portrays him as a good character, who sticks to his morals and is always willing to help other people, even though this is dangerous. Being full of goodness himself, he naively looks past the evil in the world, and sees the good in people. McCarthy uses religious symbolism in descriptions of him – in the opening scene in the novel, the man says about the boy ‘If he is not the word of God God never spoke.’ This shows us that the boy is McCarthy’s return to God. He portrays the boy as a Christ figure, good and virtuous. He is the remnant of a God in a Godless society. The son believes that he and his father are ‘carrying the fire’ and that they are ‘the good guys’ – this shows that he still has faith in the world and considers himself and his father to be good and moral. Whilst his father refuses to help others, the boy strongly feels that it is the right thing to do. McCarthy writes the dialogue between the father and son: ‘[father] He’s been struck by lightning. [Son] Can we help him? Papa? [Father] No. We can’t help him… they went on. The boy was crying.’ We can see how strongly the boy feels about this, and how it brings him pain to watch others suffer. The character of the boy confronts us with a vast contrast to that of any other characters in the book. Even though he is essentially only human, his empathy and morality challenge us as readers to alter our ideas on nihilism. Although this world is seemingly

When the side conflict arose when strangers were met, it was the son’s emotional compass that drove such conflicts. When the son was driven away from the other boy he saw, his empathy and fear for the boy is what drove his break down and repeated question, “What about the little boy? What about the little boy? What about the little boy?”(86) The tension caused by the son’s empathy for the other boy, and the fathers ultimate concern for his son is what prompted this conflict. The boy’s innocent empathy towards others was another facet of the plot that underlined the entire book. Its queer connotation in terms of the context drove the plot along. When another stranger named Ely was met, it was the boy’s empathy that drove his father to feed the old stranger. Ely would ask, “Why did he do it?” (172) and question a giving character in a very selfish world. His father would respond “You wouldn’t understand…I’m not sure I do.” The conflicting, and in the proposed status quo, radical helping nature of the boy really added a lot to the story. The relatable innocent character would highlight the darker aspects of the book, while all the same show the value of good. This aspect of the son’s emotional and youthful divergence is a prerequisite to many of the themes in the novel such as selfishness, love, and survival. The more moral character in the son is what allowed the novel to have a more

When we talked about “ Riding the Red” in last Friday class, the “sexual partner” that Amy mentioned reminded me of “ The Story of Grandmother” by Paul Delarue.

The way the young child is treated represents selfishness. Le Guin writes, “... if it were cleaned and feed and comforted… in that day and hour all the prosperity

I look back at my oatmeal, and then I start putting the brown deliciousness on top. When Fredrick joins the table, we dig in, we all eat in silence until we're all finished. Once I'm finished, I begin to to speak. "Hey Zach, last night during our talk. You mentioned something to me about Nora's wolf gift, but what is a wolf gift?" I ask.

The characters are faced with two choices which would be to stay and accept the child’s fate or to walk away and leave for the mountains. Both of these choices do not involve helping the child but rather abandoning it in both circumstances. This is a criticism of how people in reality typically treat those who are