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Largely known as the biggest animal on the planet, elephant is always considered human’ friendliest wild friend. We have coexisted from the beginning of time, working, sharing this increasingly overcrowded land. In the crazy and fast pacing world of animals and the endless fight over the places in the food chain , elephant is still supposed to be the calmest because, according to some children’s book, those problems are too small compared to the size of the animal. However, it seems that this theory is only true in the childhood fantasy. In “An Elephant Crackup?”, Charles Siebert drills on the downfall of elephants. He gives a depiction of the recent raging and violent acts of the elephants, and presents an educated and almost unexpected …show more content…
For example, they “somewhat loosely bound and yet intricately interconnected”(Siebert 355), we have our seemingly perfect social system where people have their roles and privacy; and and social network, which connects people regardless of distance. “When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting week-long vigils over the body, carefully covering it with earth and bush”(Siebert 355). Sound familiar? We too bury our passed loved ones and have events to say goodbye to them. We used voice, tone and gesture to communicate with each other, they “employ a range of vocalizations, from low-frequency rumbles to higher-pitched screams and trumpets, along with a variety of visual signals”(Siebert 355-356). So now,with all these resemblances, the connection between humanity and elephants is too apparent to just be a coincidence. This is the time where a question is raised: If we are so similar, could the things that are happening to the elephants also be happening right now or in a near future to humans? Will we all just turn into beastly creatures one day and kill other species, along with our own and go into extinction? That sounds like a scary thing to imagine, but we are not too far away from that point. We have been killing each other and hunt down animals for thousands of year. So what is the thing that still help us remain sane and existing? Looking at the case of elephants, we have much to thank to the elder women in our lives. It is believed and scientifically proved in Charles Siebert’s essay that the extraneous violence of elephants is largely attributed to the disappearing of the herd’s matriarch and experienced female. We too, would have the same reactions with the absence of these women, which is demonstrated in the living example of the Citadel in Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”. The male students in
Have you ever wondered how animals interact and work together to get a job done? Many times, animals put their minds together to complete a task. But what many people do not realize is that animals interact with one another just as humans would. In many instances, people don’t realize the amount of intelligence and common sense that animals, such as the elephant, possess. The study of elephant’s thoughts and thinking were explained and backed up through three different mediums. This information was explained through articles, videos, and passages. Combined, these pieces of work clarified what the experiment was, what it was testing, the purpose behind it, and how the different pieces were
Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk is a passage about a study preformed to test elephants' abilities to collaborate. It explains the basic process of the experiment, and provided in-depth analysis of the results. It made many comparisons between the study and other studies and research and noted the opinions of numerous professionals, which helped show the significance of the test's findings. The purpose of this passage was to primarily to be an entertaining article, and secondarily to inform the reader about the experiment. It was very similar to Elephants Console Each Other in tone and style, but differed more from Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk, mainly because it was less informational, and more enjoyable.
So far this book was a nice little surprise. Like previously stated, upon picking this book up one would think that the author is crazy for writing about the lifestyles of elephants. But when it is actually explored and read its written style and messages make for this book to be taken in very easily and fluently. This language used is at the perfect level, and the subject level is complex enough that the reader has to make connections themselves or else they will become confused almost guaranteed.
Each author has the same purpose in writing about the elephant studies and there are many similarities and differences in which the elephants behaved.
It is the highest rank that an elephant capturer can attain (Worall). This “power” has never been scientifically studied, but the people of both Burma and Thailand believe that this phenomenon exists. There are not many Khru Ba Yai left, it is said that there are a few still alive in both Burma and Thailand (Worall). These individuals became incredibly important when elephants went into “musth.” Several times a year, bull elephants go into a period called musth, a period of temporary madness. When in this state, bull elephant’s aggressiveness, testosterone levels, and mating drive spikes tremendously (Ogden). Studies have found that bull elephants are flooded with up to ten times as much testosterone as usual causing them to attack other elephants, mahouts, or anything else they may see as a threat (Ogden). In Elephant Run, Nick is given a first-hand look at how horrifying an encounter with a bull elephant in musth can be. “…The bull had uprooted every plant within reach and had plowed the ground around him into soft loam with his heavy tusks. As they approached, he started straining against his ropes in an effort to get to them” (Smith 59). However, something incredible transpired soon after Nick witnessed the roped up and infuriated bull elephant. “The monk stepped closer to the mad bull. He put his hands on one of his tusks and he leaned his old shaved head toward the bull’s ear, as if he were saying something to him” (Smith 61). The bull then relaxed after the monk named ‘Hilltop’ spoke to it. The Khru Ba Yai are a mysterious group with very few numbers in existence. It is a practice that seems utterly impossible but is ingrained in the Burmese culture as reality. The mahout tradition and practice is something so unique and utterly incredible, they risk life and limb to train and work with these magnificent animals. Interestingly enough, the mahouts of Burma actually helped in
Elephants'." Studies in Short Fiction. 17.1 (Winter 1980): 75-77. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 75-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant.” Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. Ed. Sonia Orwell. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1950. 3-12.
Imagination can be used not just to replace reality, but to make reality more real. In Azar Nafisi's work Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, she uses imagination from her literature class in order to learn about her students and society. Likewise, in Oliver Sacks' work The Mind's Eye, the blind people he studies use some form of imagination to create or construct individual worlds (Sacks 317). Charles Siebert's essay An Elephant Crackup? states that elephants and humans can peacefully coexist and learn more about each other if they understand each other in order to create a trans-species psyche. This trans-species psyche requires humans to anthropomorphize elephants using imagination, but the knowledge
Sources used in this piece were interviews with zoo staff and also visuals in the form of photographs of the elephant. Unknown, “Hattie, Central Park Elephant, Dies; News Hidden to keep Sad Children Away.” The New York Times. November 20,
Tower shows the reader, in no uncertain terms, that he himself struggles with his emotional reaction to hunting and shooting an elephant. We see him chastise himself for his emotional reactions, desperately trying to logic his way through them. In trying to compartmentalize his own emotions, he attempts to make the readers do the same. His description of dismembering the dead elephant is one of these attempts: “As the knives flash, the animal becomes less extraordinary, less like the world’s largest land mammal and more a bricolage of familiar butcher-shop hues. The trunk is stripped of its leather, and for
Orwell George. “Shooting an Elephant” English Compostition II, Writing about your world: Global Sociocultural Awareness 3rd Edition; Jacksonville Fl. 2011 Pg. Electronic book edition.
Author Yuval Noah Harari has a unique way of reviewing the past fourteen billion years in his monograph Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. His intention for writing this book is mainly to bring up the conversation of the human condition and how it has affected the course of history. In this case, the human condition coincides with the inevitable by-products of human existence. These include life, death, and all the emotional experiences in between. Harari is trying to determine how and why the events that have occurred throughout the lives of Homo Sapiens have molded our social structures, the natural environment we inhabit, and our values and beliefs into what they are today.
Humans and animals, are very similar. They live, eat, sleep, then die. A lot of animals have died because of humans, and a lot of humans have died because of animals. Many animals species’ have become extinct, or have all died off, for example; a mammoth. Mammoths have been extinct for many years, but there were no such thought of a zoo when they became extinct.
One of the biggest questions asked by not only researchers, but everyday people as well, has been the question of what makes we as people human. Being human consists of a complexity of definitions and factors that coexist with one another to make up who we are as people, and through anthropology, being human is studied very carefully in order to provide an answer to this question. Aspects such as language and communication, self-conceptualism, and bipedalism all correlate to what consists of being human, and while some of these can relate to other species, human beings use them in uniquely different ways that enhance our functioning in the world. Anthropologists have researched the complexity of human beings for centuries and throughout this
Morally, I think this story clearly states that people would do anything to avoid being embarrassed. From my understanding, I think that this story teaches us that we should be open to hear people?s opinions but we should follow our instincts. We should not allow others to make the decisions for us. The police officers just shoot the elephant because people wanted him to do so. This essay is trying to help us to see that we should look at the pros and cons of an issue rather than making a quick decision that can affect someone. I cannot condemn the author for shooting the elephant, though he knew it was wrong. Nor can I condemn him for giving in to the natives and not sticking to his guns. He does not want to appear foolish to others like all of us do.