...Analysis of the Cold Environment in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” The purpose of this essay is to explore the cold, hostile environment in “Hunters in the Snow”.exp Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow,” (rpt In Thomas R Arp and Greg Johnson Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 11th Ed [Boston: Wadwork, 2012[ pg 86-99)The cold Hostile environment in “Hunters in the Snow” relates to the overall meaning of the characters, story, and actions. The setting of this short story is important because it could not have been written another way. First, the cold, hostile environment affects the characters. The environment highlights the relationship between the men. While the weather was unforgiving, so were the guys in their relationships...
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...Tobias Wolff’s story of “Hunters in the Snow” is a fascinating story. It gives a small experience of what it is like to hang around a group of guys. Although it may be stereotypical and a little exaggerated, it presents the idea of how guys like to get on each other’s nerves and how they bond. It begins as Tub, one of the main characters, is stuck in the cold waiting on his friends to arrive for their habitual hunting trip. They almost hit him with their truck as they run halfway in the road and halfway on the sidewalk, and we see there is some immediate mistreatment between the group. As the story continues, there are many more instances where they encounter problems with each other. It is full of symbolism and imagery, and its sensitivity is shocking. A group of guys will wake up early in the morning, eat breakfast, put on camouflage, and spray themselves with pee to mask their own horrific scent. They will then go into a deer stand, sit there for hours, and watch the leaves move. This is an...
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...In thirty degrees temperatures, the average human will become uncomfortable, however, being exposed to ten-degree weather can be detrimental to the body. At first the body will begin to shiver in attempt to warm itself, but over time the body shuts down, and becomes numb. The freezing weather in Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff symbolizes the cold words of friends and the numbness the main characters develop. The first sentence of the story introduces the weather and Tub “paced the sidewalk to keep warm,” (160). When Tub’s friends arrive, he is cold, but is still sensitive to their negative comments. “ ‘I’m cold,’ Tub said. Frank breathed out, ‘Stop bitching, Tub. Get centered.’ ‘I wasn’t bitching,” (161). By the time the group arrives...
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...Hunter versus the Hunted Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” are fictional short stories that share a common theme of the hunter versus the hunted. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Sanger Rainsford, an avid big game hunter, finds himself trapped on an unforgiving hideaway known as Ship-Trap Island. Meanwhile, in “Hunters in the Snow” a group of young men venture into the wilderness for the thrill of killing a wild animal. In both stories, the protagonists are portrayed as the hunted, as the hunters, and finally, as the victors. Rainsford has seen war, had numerous near death experiences with wild animals and continues to engage in the sport for the love of hunting. He and his shipmates are off to...
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...“The Hunters in the Snow “ and “The Most Dangerous Game” are two stories that are put together and have cub substantial interpretations. “The Hunters in the Snow,” is a well rounded story that represents literary fiction because it provoked the readers intimate judgement and reasoning. “The Most Dangerous Game,” in my opinion relates more to commercial fiction because it demonstrates an objection to the reader in contrast to the message of the story. There was also a major difference in the two stories. “The Hunters in the Snow,” directs assistance on the different streams of three men attempting to hunt for a deer in the cold weather. Additionally the characters in the first story are not well explained as in the second one. Although the...
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...was the shivering snow on the branches of the oak tree. Everyone was so excited to go make terrific snow angels in the shiny white snow in Detroit Michigan. One girl did not want to go outside in the freezing horrible snow. She wanted to stay in the searing, blistering, hot house all alone. That girl’s name is Xena. She wasn’t like any ordinary girl. She was special but in a good way. Xena had everything: a perfect life, a brilliant family, and a million dollar home. She was diagnosed with Brain Cancer but she was going to be able to live a long life till about 56 years old. Her family worked their butts off just to get the medicine she needs for her. Xena was their good luck...
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... By Rebekah K, Grade 3 Project due, January 23, 2011 The Arctic Fox is a cute ball of white fluff. They are the size of a cat. They have short ears and legs; they have fur on the bottom of their feet, to keep their feet warm when they walk in the snow. Their fur coats are white in the winter months; this helps them blend in with the snow to protect them from their enemies. Brown – grey in the summer months, so then they look like the rocks and plants that grow in the tundra. The fox has a big bushy tail that they use for balance just like a cat. They also use their long bushy tail to keep them warm when they are sleeping. They have cute little faces, with a black nose and pretty brown eyes. They are one of my favorite animals. The Arctic fox lives in some of the coldest places on earth. In Canada they live in the Northwest Territories. Most foxes dig burrows under the ground or in dens. Some of the dens are over 300 years old. Each new generation of foxes will live there. Most of these dens have over a hundred doorways to get in them. If a fox doesn’t have a den they will burrow deep in the snow for shelter or find a cliff ledge. The Arctic Fox will eat rodents, birds, seal pups, fish, and bird eggs. They will eat vegetables...
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...innocent small angel? “Okay, okay just be quite because you will wake up your sister.” I whispered. She smiled and her beautiful blue eyes shined with happiness again. *** It was winter. Snow was falling, so much like stars. Drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground. It was magical. My house was north from the small village, so close to the woods. The woods were lovely, dark and deep. Every year we went there with my family, so my father can go hunting in the woods. Every year I was asking myself ‘Is hunting wrong?’. I finally figured that hunting is not necessarily wrong. Besides, as far as I am concerned, the motive makes the difference. I told my father that for first and maybe last time, I will go and hunt with him. I was in the woods early in the morning, before sunshine. The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be dangerous. I was a hunter before I went to the woods and didn't even know it. A certain innocence had taken me into the snowy woods that snowy morning. I was alone, laying in the snow patiently waiting for my prey. I remember how powerful I felt when I was holding that large heavy cannon. I was laying in the snow for hours, frozen from the cold and when I was just about to give up and leave I heard something. Something was moving in the snowy bushes in front of me. It was not the wind, it...
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... BODPOD INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND The BODPOD is a fairly new form of body fat estimation introduced to the health and fitness world. BODPOD is a shortened term for the formally named air-displacement plethysmography. This tool for body composition estimation is called a two-compartment model, similar to hydrostatic weighing. Hydrostatic weighing is another two-compartment model that was around and used before the BODPOD’s existence. (Fields, Hunter & Goran , 2000) Also called under water weighing, hydrostatic weighing remains the gold standard for accurate measurements of body fat percentages. This can be an intimidating form of measurement because subjects are forced to be submerged underwater and exhale as much air as possible. Some Studies show that the hydrostatic method is still a more trusted means of estimation of body fat percentages and body density, while others show that their results are often times very similar. (Fields, Wilson, Gladden, Hunter, Pascoe & Goran, 2001) It is called two compartment because is measures two things, Body fat percentages (BF%) and body density (Bd), as opposed to a four compartment model which takes fat, water, minerals, and protein into account. (Sardinha, Silva & Teixeira, 2003) The BODPOD is a much cheaper and easier way to estimate BF%, which is why it is so commonly used. These reasons along with the minimal training needed to run the machines is why more and more labs are switching...
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...is surprisingly big enough to fit Nyla, Cynayou, the baby and Comock inside, and Allee lying on top of the front. He uses his kayak to travel and go fishing around the freezing water and ice. Nanook and his followers use the giant omiak boat covered with seal skin to go down the river where the white man “big igloo”-the trading post- is located. Nanook hunts for fox, seal, walrus and polar bear year round barters their goods for good knives, beads and colored candies. When Nanook and his family travel in the winter, they only bring a stone pot, stone lamps and their robes which are made out of deer or bear skin. Their transportation is a big sled pulled by a pack of huskies. The sled slides with great difficulty due to the dry-like-sand snow, but, at least, Nyla and the children do not have to travel on foot. Nanook seems to always have by his side the walrus knife which he uses virtually for everything, from hunting animals to cutting and creating ice blocks to build the igloo. From time to time, Nanook is seen with his proud harpoon which he uses to hunt walrus and fishes or his walking stick with one end sharpened to measure the thickness and hardness of the ice. Environmental resources are very scarce in the Arctic. Moss is the only plant that grows, and it is found in small patches here and there. The Inuit use moss for wicking, and sometimes for fuel. Walrus, seal, fox, polar bear, and salmon are the only animals available for hunting. They are the main source of food...
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...SPECIES- Ursus Maritimus, Polar Bear, lord of the Arctic. Lives in an area of five million square miles of snow and ice. From Siberia to Alaska and across Canada, Greenland and the Islands north of Norway, he is the master of all living things except man. It lives in the brutal cold, ice, and snow. The temperature can plunge down frequently to -40 degrees and sometimes even lower but that does not bother the polar bear because of its color-less skin and layer of insulation fat. Its range extending around the northern polar region. Necessities of Life-The polar bear eats mostly seals which he has to hunt. His trick is to wait by a breathing in the ice and when a seal comes up by that breathing hole, he grabs it so fast it knocks it unconscious and then he eats it. Other pray is a walrus calf or a musk ox stuck in snow, birds, eggs, fish, and dead whales. And sometimes in the summer it eats berries and grass. The polar bear has no water to drink so it only eats the skin and blubber, avoiding the meat. So by eating the blubber and leaving the meat the male bear is helping keep his body in balance with the surrounding environment. The bear would usually stay in a den or bury it self in the snow to avoid the suns ultra violent rays. Usually the pregnant female polar bear stays in the den.Food Chain-The polar bear finds its way on the top of its food chain. No predator on earth approaches the bear in size. The polar bear towers over everything else in his food chain. The...
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...In the fall of 2007 the numbers of pheasants and pheasant hunters combined increased by over 34%. Then in the winter of 2007 pheasant numbers dropped 80% when over 70 inches of snow fell in eastern South Dakota. How do humans and natural driving forces affect pheasants and pheasant hunting in South Dakota? Today we can predict the booms and the busts of pheasants by the weather conditions. When people destroy winter habitat we know there is going to be some starvation and a possible smaller bust in numbers. With the boom that just happened, it could be extinguished by a bust. When we can't predict a bust or maybe disease that threatens the population. These birds could go extinct. (Laingen2008) In 2007 Non-resident hunters contributed 180 million dollars to the State of South Dakota's economy. To prove this the state took a...
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...A Death in the Woods - Sherwood Anderson She was an old woman and lived on a farm near the town in which I lived. All country and small-town people have seen such old women, but no one knows much about them. Such an old woman comes into town driving an old worn-out horse or she comes afoot carrying a basket. She may own a few hens and have eggs to sell. She brings them in a basket and takes them to a grocer. There she trades them in. She gets some salt pork and some beans. Then she gets a pound or two of sugar and some flour. Afterwards she goes to the butcher's and asks for some dog-meat. She may spend ten or fifteen cents, but when she does she asks for something. Formerly the butchers gave liver to any one who wanted to carry it away. In our family we were always having it. Once one of my brothers got a whole cow's liver at the slaughter-house near the fairgrounds in our town. We had it until we were sick of it. It never cost a cent. I have hated the thought of it ever since. The old farm woman got some liver and a soup-bone. She never visited with any one, and as soon as she got what she wanted she lit out for home. It made quite a load for such an old body. No one gave her a lift. People drive right down a road and never notice an old woman like that. There was such an old woman who used to come into town past our house one Summer and Fall when I was a young boy and was sick with what was called inflammatory rheumatism. She went home later carrying a heavy pack on her...
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...Woman has always shown characteristics of a hero, but not until recently were they recognized as heroic figures in our modern society. The classical princess stories are being altered to make the female characters overcome the stereotype of weakness. For example, the television show Once Upon a Time, starring Jennifer Morrison and airing on the American Broadcasting Company Network, features Snow White as a strong, powerful leader in her kingdom. She is portrayed as a huntress who will do anything for her people, including going against the Evil Queen when everyone else is scared too. She is also an optimist because she states, "Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing" (Season One, Episode One). This...
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...Richard Connell Zaroff sets people up from boat wrecks and hunts them like animals. Rainsford states, “the world is made up of two classes -- the hunters and the huntees.” I think there are more types of people in the world than two. In the story the author presented two hunters, Rainsford, and Zaroff. Zaroff thinks its ok to hunt humans if he gives them exercise, food, and water. In the book Rainsford is the real hunter and Whitney proves it. “ I’ve seen you pick off a mouse moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless caribbean night”. Rainsford hunts dangerous animals like jaguars and Lions. The story proves to us Zaroff is also a hunter. “ I’ve read your books about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, You see”. Later in the story Zaroff says he hunts humans. Zaroff likes hunting humans because they give up a good fight and got bored of hunting animals. He also hunts humans to teach them a lesson....
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