Animals have always affected humans since the beginning of time. This is especially proven in the
literary works “Why I Hunt” and “Am I Blue?”. In Both works, animals play a large part in the lives of authors
Rick Bass and Alice Walker. In their essays, they prove that animals do affect humans.
In “Why I Hunt,” Rick Bass started the essay with a description of the inventory of wood and food he
had taken at the end of the hunging season in the Yaak Valley. Then he flashes back to how he found the valley.
He talked about how one day, he and his wife were restless one day, so they packed their bags and left
Mississippi, going as far North as they could until they reached Canada. Then they drove as far west as they
could until they reached
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the Rockies, where they found the Yaak Valley. Then he talked about how beautiful and bountiful he could tell the valley was when he first set his eyes on it. Then, Bass talked about how the people of the valley have few utilities and how the Yaak Valley brings out the inner huntsman in everyone who lives there. Then he talked about how prey shapes predators and how a hunter has a greater imagination than a regular person. Finally, he ends the essay with his own definition of hunting. After reading the essay, I realized how much work and proof Rick poured into his essay. In his essay, Rick Bass certainly used plenty of evidence to prove that hunters have greater imagination and prey shapes predator. Also, all of the evidence presented his ideas bery well, like growing corn and a goshawk chasing a thrush. All of his evidence was relevant to the ideas Rick discussed in each part of th essay. However, I am not certain that most of his evidence is accurate because most of his evidence came from his own experiences. The only evidence that is completely accurate ia a percentage of hunters in the United States and in Montana. After I read the essay, this is what I thought about it. I honestly do believe that prey shapes predator and that hunters have a greater imagination than most people. I have been hunting a few times in my life and I know that the more that I know about my prey, the better I will be. I also really liked how Bass used a goshawk chasing a thrush as the example of how prey shapes predators; I liked how much thought he put into wording that example. I also liked how he transitioned the goshawk and thrush to the tracking a person would do when trying to find game.
I also believe that hunters do generally have greater imaginations than most people. Hunters have to
have a great imagination while hunting. A great imagination gives a hunter hope that he or she will find the
game he or she is looking for. A great imagination also gives a hunter an idea of where his or her game is. A
great imagination keeps a hunter aware that the game he or she is looking for can be anywhere.
In the essay “Am I Blue?”, Alice Walker introduced to story by talking about the small hoyse she
rented, the landscape around the house, and the horse that lived beside them. Next she talked about the horse her
neighbors boarded named Blue. Then she talked about how she would feed him apples and how bored Blue was
in his meadow. Then, she talked about her thoughts about slavery, the Indians, men who marry Korean women
and society’s impatience with the young while making a quilt. Then, Blue gets a partner in his meadow and she
described Blue having “a look of independence, of self-possession, of inalienable horseness” (“Am I Blue?”).
Then the owners of Blue’s partner took her away and Blue became crazy. She then talked about how
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what happens to animals happens to people and that some people were raised with ideas like that animals love to be abused by people. Then she described Blue as having a look of hatred to humans and having a barrier to protect him from further harm.
Finally, while a friend visited, she realized that humans make animals images of what
the animals could express better and, when she realized this, spat out the piece of steak she was eating. After
reading the essay, I agreed to the arguments Alice used.
Alice used plenty of evidence to prove her arguments. All the evidence Alice used also represented her
story very well. There was not any evidence she used that I did not understand. Every piece of evidence she used
was also related to the idea each of evidence was talking about. However, all the evidence came from her own
experience while she lived at that country house, so I cannot be completely sure that the evidence was accurate.
When I read “Am I Blue?” these are my opinions about the essay.
The essay to me was very sad. As far as I know, Blue was lonely and bored until the brown horse
entered his life. While he and the other horse were together, Blue was as proud and free and happy as he could
be. Yet his owners allowed the other owners to put her without any regard to if it would destroy him? All I have
to say is the owners wronged Blue for making his first companion one that could not stay and I hope Blue’s
owners repaid him for their
transgression. I also believe that animals have feelings and that they affect us. Having six dogs, I know animals have feelings and that they express them. I know that when I arrive home, all the dogs are wagging their tails because I am back. When they do let me out of the vehicle, I try to make sure that I pet each of them, all except one of them. One of my dogs will just whine at me while I am petting the other dogs, but he will not let me touch him. It hurts me that he will not let me touch him because he would let me pet him long ago. That is what I found out about “Why I hunt” and “Am I Blue?”. After I read both essays, I believe that I received a greater awareness to animals and that I need to learn to pay greater attention to their wants and needs. I would recommend both essays as something people need to read. Again, the essays are “Why I Hunt” and “Am I Blue?” and they both deal with how animals affect humans.
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She then moves on to describe each of the characters, and in doing so, their surroundings and how they fit in: "He was cold and wet, and the best part of the day had been used up anyway. He wiped his hands on the grass and let the pinto horse take him toward home. There was little enough comfort there. The house crouched dumb and blind on the high bench in the rain. Jack's horse stood droop-necked and dismal inside the strand of rope fence, but there wasn't any smoke coming from the damned stove (28)."
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argument of Karlsen, you get the sense that she herself wasn’t sure of her own evidence.
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Smith, Pamela A. "Green Lap, Brown Embrace, Blue Body: The Ecospirituality of Alice Walker." April Cross Currents 2000 (1999): 18 p.
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