Angela Carter’s 1984 short fiction story, The Company of Wolves is set in the region of mountain and forest during the winter. She wrote four stories according to the mountain where all characters are in. Those stories become one big story. She uses that type of imagery to shows various characters and plots. Wolves are always mentioned in all four stories. A hunter kills a wolf for protection of the town. A witch cursed the cheating groom’s girl with miserly howling of wolves. A man angrily turns into wolf when he finds out his fiancé get married to another man and have children. It also retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The Company of Wolves is more gothic and darker. I assume Carter wants to warn young girls to beware of attractive …show more content…
male strangers. The narrator is third person because Carter uses “you” and “we.” But, I read ahead as the story continues from where I already guess who the narrator is. It leads me to find out who the narrator actually is. I notice the absence of the narrator, so it is possible for him being the narrator without power of omniscient and with power of omnipresent. Yet “we” word hints the narrator that he is actually a character. Also, Carter talks to the audience as "you" to convince us of this. Third person with power of omnipresent might be a mysterious character in The Company of Wolves who explains what he see what happened around the mountain yet he doesn’t understand how it happened. He have limited of knowledge since he doesn’t know how men become beasts and why it happens. Wolves are portrayed as “grey members of a congregation of nightmare.” They kill any traveler that goes head into the forest, which is their territory. They can eat human. Also, they eat what Carter writes; “Ghosts, hobgoblins, ogres that grill babies upon gridirons, witches.” Despite the fact wolves cannot reason, they are clever to escape from men who tried to catch them. Despite the fact that most wolves are simply beasts, the narrator explains, “Fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems.” Carter mentions the story of a hunter who trapped a wolf in a pit. The hunter killed the wolf for a trophy. He cuts off paws, but he notice that the wolf reveals himself in his human form when he is near the death. The werewolf represents men who would steal others’ life. A fear of wolves is normal when packs roam around the mountain. Fear easily becomes superstition. Wolves are seen as evil creatures. Wolves are bad characters that people learned to fear. Children carry knives with them when they go out to get food. Carter says, “Their knives are half as big as they are, the blades are sharpened daily.” Wolves are knows for attacking people and tricking children. They are predators, but that is their nature as well as ours. The groom catches the attention of the witch by cheating with another girl. The witch turns a whole of wedding party into wolves. The witch orders them to sit and howl around the girl’s cottage. They express their unhappiness toward the girl through sound of howling. That moment, wolves are harmless creatures. Other stories strongly note wolves are evil creatures yet that story doesn’t state anything about evil actions of wolves. Yet, it hints the wedding party already knows about the cheating. They don’t do anything about cheating. They don’t stop the wedding. Because of that, the witch turns them into wolves. Carter writes the whole story to represent feminist so the witch represents feminist and wolves represent feminism. The young woman is also dumped on her wedding night. She gets another husband within no time and then has children. One night, she made soup for the father of their children, the first husband returns. He turns into wolf when he sees that she had remarried to the father of their children who just enters. He rips off the eldest boy’s left foot. The second husband chops him to death with hatchet. The woman weeps when this happens. In return, she is beat by the second husband because he could not stand her longing after her first husband. This is her punishment by the werewolf for unfaithfulness reasons. This is symbolic of domestic abuse. Men expect women to be obedient and devoted to their husband all her life while there is nothing to require for men to offer for their wife except sexual desire. The wolves are used as a metaphor to represent the men who would take the virginity of a girl or a woman.
Carter’s last story is different from Little Red Riding Hood because she turns the Girl into strong-minded and independent character than what the original folktale had. Rather than reacting to the wolf with fear, the Girl shows courage and confidence. Carter says, “The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat.” This reaction shows the brave Carter put into a character of the Girl that is different from female characters that need protecting. Rather than show a woodsman, Carter makes sure to point out that the Girl that she can defend herself without a man’s help. She also makes sure to point out that the Girl is a virgin with “an unbroken egg; she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane”. But, the ending show that the Girl who are so willing to give in to the werewolf “in a savage marriage ceremony.” The ending is interpreted as Girl’s virginity is actually special except to herself. It’s not any man’s decision to tell her whether it’s for her to give it up or not, it’s her decision alone. In the end, she allows the werewolf to take it. Carter challenges the original viewpoint of women and virginity by introducing the Girl that gives into sex easy, beginning with “she freely gave the kiss she owed him.” The Girl changes to be a woman who considers her own body to do with what she
pleases. The moral lesson we learn from The Company of Wolves is that we are warned against the wolves that exist in our society today. They are out just to satisfy their own desires. The wolves are used as a metaphor to show the men. Men and women both have sexual desires and it would not make them unequal. But, The Company of Wolves says otherwise. Also, women can go against other women. Women are victims of domestic abuse. Little girls could also become bad women who are not driven by their own sexual desires. Carter challenges the view of women and how society often tries to tell what women may do with their bodies instead of allowing them to make the decision. I assume Carter wants to warn young girls to beware of attractive male strangers.
Sonya Hartnett’s ‘The Midnight Zoo’ a touching story that explores the effect war had on animals, children and nature. Both human and animal characters speak about their experiences throughout this period. The book tells about how a hunger for power over something that is not owned impacts everybody and leaves innocents caught up in a large mess.
I read the book Lonesome Howl, which is a drama book and a love story. The book was about two main character whose names are Jake and Lucy. They lived with their family in two different farms, but in the same community besides a mountain covered in a big wicked forest where many rumors took place. The farmers around the place lost many sheep’s since a feral beast. It was a quite small community and a lot of tales was told about it to make it even more interesting. Lucy was 16 years old and lived with her strict father and a coward of mom who didn’t dare to stand up for her daughter when she were being mistreated and slapped around by her father. Lucy was a retired and quite teenager because of that. She had a younger brother whose name was Peter. Peter was being bullied in school and couldn’t read since the education of Peter was different compare too Lucy’s. She helped him in school and stood up for the mean bullies, although all she got in return was him talking bullshit about her with their cruel dad which resulted with her getting thrash.
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell is the story of a pack of human girls who were born of werewolves. They are taken from their families in the wilderness and brought to a St. Lucy’s. It was here that they were to be civilized. The process of civilization involved stripping them of their personal and cultural identities and retraining them in a manner that was acceptable to the human world. This is a close analogy to the Residential Schools of Cultural Assimilation for native Americans from 1887 to the early 1950’s.
The wolves’ were hunted in late 1800 s’ and early 1900‘s in the United States because farmers wanted more land for their cattle’s to graze upon. As farmers were moving out west they felt threaten that the wolves would hunt their cattles so the farmers thought that the best solution would be to take them out of the picture. This was possible because at the time there were no government regulations on hunting....
Having to take your anger out on someone isn’t fair or good, especially if you’re being killed with frozen lamb. Based on everyone’s understanding, when you kill someone you’ll have to pay the price and consequences. Apparently this lady didn’t. But are we sure she’s going to marry another man and kill him too? In “Lamb to the slaughter”, I’m going to be talking about Mary Maloney and how madly crazy she is.
American consumers think of voting as something to be done in a booth when election season comes around. In fact, voting happens with every swipe of a credit card in a supermarket, and with every drive-through window order. Every bite taken in the United States has repercussions that are socially, politically, economically, and morally based. How food is produced and where it comes from is so much more complicated than the picture of the pastured cow on the packaging seen when placing a vote. So what happens when parents are forced to make a vote for their children each and every meal? This is the dilemma that Jonathan Safran Foer is faced with, and what prompted his novel, Eating Animals. Perhaps one of the core issues explored is the American factory farm. Although it is said that factory farms are the best way to produce a large amount of food at an affordable price, I agree with Foer that government subsidized factory farms use taxpayer dollars to exploit animals to feed citizens meat produced in a way that is unsustainable, unhealthy, immoral, and wasteful. Foer also argues for vegetarianism and decreased meat consumption overall, however based on the facts it seems more logical to take baby steps such as encouraging people to buy locally grown or at least family farmed meat, rather than from the big dogs. This will encourage the government to reevaluate the way meat is produced. People eat animals, but they should do so responsibly for their own benefit.
of the wolves and finds that they are more than the savage and merciless hunters
Political philosopher and social theorist Thomas Sowell has once said, “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” It is inevitable to meet an ignorant person around each corner that one turns. It is up to the victim to either let the ignorant person corrupt him or to let the victim become smarter. One of America’s greatest activists, Martin Luther King, believed that “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” With this in mind, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all” (Kennedy).
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In the story “The Company of Wolves” little red riding hood (LRRH) sexuality empowerment was short lived. LRRH is raised in a time where “Children do not stay young for long in this savage country” because they had to help out the family and did not have time to play. Since LRRH was “so pretty and the youngest of her family” she was not as wise and maybe a little naive. So when it as a
Whether one would like to admit it or not, change is a difficult and not to mention uncomfortable experience which we all must endure at one point in our lives. A concept that everyone must understand is that change does not occur immediately, for it happens overtime. It is necessary for time to pass in order for a change to occur, be it days, weeks, months, or even years. The main character, who is also the narrator of “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, realizing that “things felt less foreign in the dark” (Russell 225), knows that she will be subject to change very soon. The author makes it evident to readers that the narrator is in a brand new environment as the story begins. This strange short story about girls raised by wolves being trained by nuns to be more human in character is a symbol for immigration, as the girls are forced to make major changes in their lives in order to fit in with their new environment and adapt to a new culture.
In The Wolves in the Walls, author Neil Gaiman tells the story of a girl named Lucy who is convinced that there are wolves living in the walls of her family’s house. She tells everyone in her family what she is hearing and none of them believe her. One night actual wolves break out of the walls, which forces the family to relocate to the garden outside. Lucy, having forgot her pig puppet in the frenzy, goes back to the house and sneaks around the home through the walls. She retrieves her pig puppet and goes back the garden. Her family is trying to decide where they should move to, but Lucy does not want to leave her house and suggests that they take up residence in the walls. The family reluctantly agree, however, when the walls are deemed too
He stated, “I never trust the children of the wolf, because they are wild animals. Cunning is the greatest talent for taking advantage of the sweat of other”. The children he was referencing were the descendants of Romulus and Remus; therefore, suggesting Rome being a location filled with wild people that cannot be trusted. However, Rome is not the only civilization who believes wolves are not wild fiends, but rather trustworthy companions. Native American traditionally considered them as a good sign, a protector, strong, courageous, mysterious (Lake-Thom). Native Americans have often held timber wolves in the highest esteem in their culture. In truth, they are many times seen as a sacred animal and featured significantly in ancient songs, dances and stories that have been handed down for generations. Their role in artwork and other cultural items of Native American life was a given and often revered and welcomed. In Christianity, the wolf is represented as a symbol of greed, lust, evil, destructiveness. This may be where Antonio got his perception of wolves because on page 76 of the novel he states he advises his students to read Christ stopped at
The stories ?Little Red Riding Hood,? by Charles Perrault, and ?Little Red Cap,? by the Brothers Grimm, are similar and different. Moreover, both stories differ from the American version. The stories have a similar moral at the end, each with a slight twist. This story, in each of its translations, is representative of a girl?s loss of innocence, her move from childhood or adolescence into adulthood. The way women are treated within each story is different. Little Red in the French version was eaten; whereas in the German version, she is rescued by the woodsman, and this further emphasizes the cultural differences.
The setting of this book is four hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland on the Polar Ice Cap in fierce and extremely harsh climate. A group of men and women go down in a jetliner and they have to try to survive in temperatures of forty below. Six men and four women go through the most horrible climate imaginable and eventually survive. The kicker is that the plane did not just crash but was murder some of the passengers try to figure out who shot the pilot which caused the plane to crash into the ice cap of Greenland. The book is called night without end because every minute of everyday for the six days the people are on the polar ice cap. Eventually the passengers with the help of scientists from a research lab on the polar ice cap survive and their lives are returned to normal.