...THE WEREWOLF / CARTER Summary The narrator of "The Werewolf" sets the story's ominous tone with the opening sentence: "It is a northern country; they have cold weather; they have cold hearts." The people in this country are poor and live short, hard lives. They are superstitious to the point of conducting witch-hunts and stoning any witches found (identified by a telltale third nipple) to death. We focus in on a young girl. Her mother sends her into the forest to bring food to her ill grandmother, arming her with a knife and warning her against the dangers of the woods. The girl sets off on her journey unafraid because she knows the forest well. As she is walking, the girl hears a wolf's cry. She turns with her knife drawn to face the beast, and when it lunges, she cuts off its paw. It retreats back into the forest. She wraps the wolf's paw in cloth and continues on her way. When the girl reaches her grandmother's house, the snow is so thick that no tracks can be seen in it. She finds her grandmother in bed with a terrible fever, and when shakes out the cloth to make a hot compress, the wolf's paw falls on the floor. It has changed into a hand, which she recognizes as her grandmother's because of a single wart on it. Expanding... The girl uses all her strength to pull back her grandmother's covers and beneath them discovers the cause of her fever. Her grandmother's severed arm is already rotting. Hearing the girl's cries, the neighbors rush in. They examine the hand and declare...
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...From Predator to Protector: The Paradigm Shift in America’s Werewolf Supernatural entities have been the topic of fiction since the dawn of literature. These entities brazenly manipulate the societal, environmental, and physical norms which dictate much of the living world. Perhaps one of the most renowned literary characters of supernatural fiction is the werewolf. Historically, this literary concept of a wolf-human hybrid is rooted in evil. They are graphically described as “bestial, blood-drinking, human-flesh-eating creatures, endowed with more than human agility and strength” (Rudin 115). Werewolves served as popular antagonists throughout media, including television and cinema; yet, in recent years, the media’s perception of werewolves has taken a noticeable shift in the opposite direction. Stephenie Meyer, the critically acclaimed author of the Young Adult series The Twilight Saga, embodies this shift to the “new” werewolf. Meyer made a drastic change to the very nature of what was once a ferocious beast by characterizing werewolves as more gentle and protective. People wonder, though, what caused this sudden switch of characteristics? Through texts such as Rick Bass’ The Ninemile Wolf, Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men, Valerie Fogleman’s piece “American Attitudes Towards Wolves: a History of Misperception,” Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, and more, this paper will argue that the “original” werewolf belief was founded on America’s misperception of wolves and...
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...interested in Jeremy. Turned into a vampire by Damon and shortly killed by Stefan for trying to kill Elena, she is now a ghost. Tyler Lockwood, trigger his werewolf gene, son of the Mayor of Mystic Falls, Matt and Jeremy's best friends, he is the first successful hybrid by Klaus, and the vampirism was reverted and he came back as a human. Alaric Saltzman, history...
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...They went to Isle Esme.”A gift from Carlisle--Esme offered to let us borrow it(78.)” Jacob changes in the beginning of this book: To a very upset, angry werewolf because of Bella's mysterious illness and her sudden return from her honeymoon, he's convinced that Edward has turned her into a vampire already. Jacob acting against Sam’s orders, he decides to attack the Cullens in a blind rage.Werewolf imprinting is they bound to protect and please this person for the remainder of his life. He thinks it bella Later does he realize at the middle of the book its bella's daughter,Which was conceived Fakely on their HoneyMoon that makes no sense because edward isn't alive. In Jacob's Werewolf pack: Seth has become close friends with Edward after they fought Victoria together in New Moon,Leah's pain after her true love, Sam, imprints on her cousin Emily, has made Leah a bitter person.They both leave their pack and go with Jacob.Quil is one of Jacob's best friends,He also suffers from Jacob's decision to leave Sam's pack, and eventually joins Jacob's pack.Embry is one of Jacob's best friends. He isn't happy after Jacob leaves Sam's pack and eventually joins...
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...stories the diverse group of girls are placed into homes by their parents for entirely different reasons. Despite these reasons the two girls in the story “Recitatif” grow closer while in the home, but the family of werewolf girls, in the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” grow further apart after they learn the ways of humans. As the girls are influenced by society they grow further apart due to the naturally selfish state of the world and the constant strife between the many cultures that it contains. All of the girls start out pure and untouched by the world and its flaws, but as they are taught to conform to societies expectations they become uncaring towards one another. The main characters of the two stories, Twyla and Claudette, are both placed into group homes by their families for the girl’s betterment. In “Recitatif” Twyla states that she and her friend were taken to St. Bonny’s home because her “… mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (Morrison 201). The two girls bonded over their mother’s mental and physical illnesses, but the relationship between the Caucasian and African-American children soon changed after they both left St. Bonny’s home and were thrown into society during the racial strife of the Civil Rights movement. The werewolf sisters in the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” came to St. Lucy’s home as a pack, but left as individuals. Claudette at first states that “The pack was worried about Mirabella,” but by the fourth...
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...Review Once a Teen Wolf, Always a Teen Wolf He shoots, he scores! He celebrates by… accidentally turning into a full-fledged werewolf creature of the night? In 2011, MTV got the rights to recreate the famous Michael J Fox flick, Teen Wolf. But instead of giving us a friendly little hour and a half film about a boy who figures out he’s born into a family of werewolves, we get a television series about a young asthmatic boy who in midst of beginning his Sophomore year in high school, ends up taking- or receiving- too big a bite for his slightly crooked but charming jaw to chew. Scott McCall, a character so closely named and only slightly modeled after the classic Michael J Fox character is the main protagonist of this story. He, his family, friends, and enemies all live in the midst of a supernatural world in the small town of Beacon Hills, California. With a set of writers like Jeff Davis, the mind behind Criminal Minds, Jeff Vlaming, one of the many people who works on NCIS and Fringe, and Monica Macer who worked on Lost, Prison Break, and 24- there’s no way this show could be anything but intelligent, smart, and completely fun, right? Well, minus a few incredibly cheesy moments that seem to make the viewer cringe away, that statement is completely true. Teen Wolf, a show trying desperately to keep its fame while flailing around madly amidst episodes of 16 and Pregnant and The Jersey Shore, is an MTV hit that has a lot more heart than expected. As the Pilot begins...
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...WoD is a great game. After running a WoD game for two years now, understanding more of its intricacies, I have to admit that I found myself charmed by its simplicity. Some people call it a "mediocre" system, but I personally find that it stands up to the rigors of actual game play quite nicely and that it even has some solid strengths: Simplicity and invisibility. You can easily call for a roll, calculate the results, and then sweep the mechanics under the rug and get back to the drama of your story without a hiccup, and it's simple enough while being interesting enough that I often choose it as an introductory game: it's easy to pick up, without being so simple that players stop and ask why we're bothering with a system at all. While essentially flawless in the sense that it won't break down on you in the middle of a game, it does lack a certain flavor and versimilitude that I look for in alot of my games. Combat isn't interesting enough, and leaves many players scratching their heads at the result. None of this is new: We all know about the dreaded "gun nibble," and the way certain factors just blend together into one tasteless grey blob that quietly resolves who kills who, but never leaves your players jumping up and down about how awesome the fight was. I don't generally like to hack rules. White Wolf isn't paying me to rewrite their rules, quite the opposite: I'm paying to play their games. I wasted two months trying to fix 7th Sea and threw up my hands halfway through...
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...Captain Barbell (1986) The story revolves around a wimpy boy named Teng-teng. He’s thin and seems to be feather weight. Sifting metals is what he does, and after collecting all the salable metal scraps he then sells it to a junk shop. All his life turned three-sixty degrees as one day a man want’s to sell his rusty barbell, so he asked Teng-teng if it can be converted into monetary value, but sadly Teng-teng confirmed it is not. But because the boy had pity to the old man that made him buy the rusty barbell. It was a heavy barbell that not an ordinary human can carry it. He was then blessed by the old man the powers to carry it. After discovering that he can carry the mysterious barbell, he cleans it until it turned shiny and as if it wasn’t rusty. Touching it automatically summons the old guy who tells him that, by holding the barbell over his head and shouting the name “Captain Barbell”, he can transform into, Captain Barbell itself. A strong, muscular guy who can fly everywhere to help the ones in need. Soon after he discovered that he can transform into a supernatural human being, his first enemy rose. A werewolf, and not just an ordinary werewolf but a flying werewolf. This then lead to an aerial chase. After all the fighting in the air, Captain Barbell figured out that the beast’s weakness is anything that has something to do with Christ. He then plucks up a big cross and flies after him with it. The fight finally finishes when Captain Barbell pinned him down into the...
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...Thursday. 2. A lycanthrope is a werewolf. A werewolf is a creature of the night that scares kids. 3. Witch, Wolf, and Wizard are three words that have a W as there first letter. 4. The word is owl. The kitchen table is low to the ground. The word is bat .I have a tab in my folder. The word is night .I saw a big black thing. The word is spider. My brother prides his photo bombs. 5. Blood, Wizard, Ghost, Witch, Zombie, Wolf, Sharks, and snakes are eight scary words 6. Pins, pump, pin, pumps, in, pumpkin are six words made out of the word pumpkins. 7. The owl belongs to the bird group. There is about 200 different owl species. A group of owls can be called a parliament. 8. The term superstition means “a belief or notion.” 9. Some superstitions are when a black cat crosses your path you have bad luck, opening an umbrella inside and last but not least if you break a mirror it will give you bad luck. 10. There are about 206 in a human skeleton. 11. The book Dracula was written by Bram Stoker and it was based on a vampire. 12. A spider is in the arachnid group. Spiders are an arachnid not an insect. Spiders have around 40,000 different species. 13. Nocturnal means to be active during the night like owls and bats. 14. Mary Shelley was a short story writer, English novelist, and a biographer. 15. I would pick the seeds out and eat them, I could paint it, put a light in it, I would decorate it and cut it up and feed it to the wild life and that’s is what I would do with...
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...Hermione then calls the werewolf, in order to save their past lives, which was a very smart move by Hermione. Hermione and Harry follow their past selves to the lake. Harry and Hermione watch the Dementors begin to kills their past selves, but Harry knows that someone will come and save them. After about a minute, Harry and Hermione realize that nobody’s coming for them. So Harry steps in and performs one of the most difficult charms ever, the Patronus Charm. It was one of the strongest Patronus Charms ever, because it swept away nearly one hundred Dementors. Harry and Hermione ride Buckbeak back to the Hogwarts building. Both of them realizing that they have to save Sirius. When they reach his cell both Harry and Hermione wish him luck. Harry gives him one last goodbye...
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...the story we meet a group of sisters whose parents are werewolves. The girls behave as wild animals initially, like biting, digging, growling, barking, scratching, flea bitten wolves! They come to live with nuns and begin the process of learning to behave like socially acceptable young women. To this reader it seems that the question is not “girls or wolves”, but “What is it that Karen Russell wants a reader to feel when they are immersed in this story?” I am of the opinion that the wolves are metaphoric, and that there is a deeper message being conveyed. When reading this story we are supposed to feel the sensation of being dropped into a strange culture: overwhelming otherness, fear, desperation, and isolation. Think back to what your life was like as a child. Imagine being taken from your family, friends, home, and everything you have ever known and sent to another country with an entirely different culture, (Think India, Russia, China, etc…) I think you would feel similarly to Claudette and her sisters. Near the beginning of the story, in stage 2, Claudette’s thoughts tell us a lot about what this might be like, “The whole pack was irritated, bewildered, depressed. We were all uncomfortable and between languages. We had never wanted to run away so badly in our lives…As soon as we realized that someone higher up the food chain was watching us, we wanted only to be pleasing in their sight” (Russell 240). This screams of the desperation they felt to fit...
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...into a selfish relationship. Bisclavret had a happy marriage with his wife, until he revealed a secret he had been keeping from her: “My dear, I become a werewolf” (63). Her wife now feared Bisclavret and refused to love him again. “Over and over she considered/ how she might get rid of him;/ she never wanted to sleep with him again” (100-102). The love that the two shared had dissipated. Their love endured while he was a werewolf; however, the new information compelled the wife to forget the emotions that she felt for him. Losing love for her husband provoked her to acquire a new man to love: There was a knight of that region Who had loved her for a long time, Who begged for her love… She’d never loved him at all (103-107). While the woman may have found a new husband to love, she did not love him like she loved Bisclavret, and the relationship was a mere escape from her previous one. This type of loved is shunned because it was selfish of her to leave her husband and find a new man that she didn’t love. As a result, she suffered in the end: “He banished the wife,/ and chased her out of the country” (305-306). The end result of their love exhibits another key facet of love, which is that one should be devoted to their lover. Bisclavret never changed from the honorable person he was when he transfigured into a werewolf. Loss of devotion to her husband ultimately caused her to leave, which the author showcases as unworthy. While the author believes one should be devoted to...
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...Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. In captivity, meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years, and about half this in the wild. ------------------------------------------------- Name "Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans. The name has a Dutch origin but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat refers to the "guenon", a monkey of the Cercopithecus genus. The word "meerkat" is Dutch for "lake cat", but the suricata is not in the cat family, and neither suricatas nor guenons are attracted to lakes; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit markaţa मर्कट = "monkey", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor on board a Dutch East India Company ship. The traders of the Dutch East India Company were likely familiar with monkeys, but the Dutch settlers attached the name to the wrong animal at the Cape. The suricata is calledstokstaartje = "little stick-tail" in Dutch. According to African popular belief (mainly in the Zambian/Zimbabwean region), the meerkat is also known as the sun angel, as it protects villages from the moon devil or the werewolf which is believed to attack stray cattle or lone...
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...this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality and even outright madness is extended so rarely.” (King, 784) He then goes on to say how it is necessary to let these feeling out; he says “ The potential lyncher is in almost all of us […] and every now and then, he has to be let loose to scream and roll around in the grass. Our emotions and our fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone.” (King, 785) King says that horror movies allow average people to put away their daily normal guise and let inner feelings out; feelings that might seem crazy to other people. By expressing these primal emotions, the viewer get a sense of relief, ready to take on daily life once more. King describes these as the “potential lyncher” in everyone; a separate person who has someone sickening interests. To keep the lyncher in check, release of these interests is absolutely necessary. Horror films provide a safe and normal way to bring about that side of someone, since they are filled with exactly what they would want: the disturbing and the crazy. Stanley J. Solomon describes his somewhat similar theories in his essay The Nightmare World. Solomon begins by describing horror movies, and gradually reveals what they all share in common. He shows that there are two features that the horror genre has: “The degree of unpreparedness on the part of the endangered victim, and the vitality or strength of the source of horror...
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...Gothic/Horror The horror genre has a huge impact on its audience with characteristics that are recognisable through generic techniques and features used in the various horror texts. In Van Helsing; a film directed by Stephen Sommers, Cirque Du Freak, a novel written by Darren Shan, and Thriller, a song by Michael Jackson, many horror gothic features and techniques are applied and are easily recognised to help anyone understand the horror genre more clearly. It is usual in horror texts for there to be a conflict between good and evil characters, dark and spooky settings, and a suspenseful build-up that causes tension for the audience and makes them wonder what might happen next. Van Helsing is about a troubled man who dedicates his life to rid the world of evil forces as he tries to hunt down the unanswered questions of his past. He finds himself on a quest in Transylvania to kill Dracula and prevent the continuation of his kind, along with Anna, a brave woman whose family has been killed by vampires for over 400 years. Dracula is a powerful and dangerous character who is immediately regarded as the antagonist from his first word, “success!” It is enhanced by a loud boom of thunder to create shock and an element of excitement for the audience and marks Dracula as a threatening and frightening character. Monstrosity is likewise displayed through Frankenstein’s character when we are introduced to him. We are given three close-up shots of his eyes, hand, and yelling mouth which...
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