Essay Comparing Why I Hunt And Am I Blue

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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