...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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...“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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...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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...,July 21st 2009 ENC 1102 M,W, 7:45am Term Paper “The Theme of Human Struggle in the Works of Ernest Hemingway” In my research paper I will show how elements of life and death, folklore/fables, myths, and rites of passage support the theme of human struggle against nature in the stories "The Old Man and the Sea," "Indian Camp," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway. Through comparative analysis of these stories' underlying themes I will address the initiation experiences of his heroes. Human dignity, morality, and the formation of human individuality through mental strife and the struggle against nature are often themes of Hemingway. Humans cope with the complexity of the world by developing simple mental models based on opposite parts. Life and death are together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the active force and death is the inactive force, but they cannot be separated. Thus, they are two aspects of one reality. When people are reading about living beings and mythological beings or those who are dead, they view the word of the dead as a living world. The dead eat, sleep and move. In the book “The Hero in Hemingway's short stories”, J. DeFalco points out that: " in the Myth there are usually three dominant movements which are cyclic in pattern. They are the departure of the hero, the initiation, and the return from heroic adventure." (17). The movements of the hero to the world where...
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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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...In the film “Nanook of the North”, the main characters are Nanook, the bear, and his family consisting of his always smiling wife Nyla, Cunayou, his son Allee, his newborn baby whose name is not mentioned, and his little husky Comock. Nanook owns a kayak boat which 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...
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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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... The Disney Princess Effect on Young Girls and Their Gender Role Perception The Disney Corporation has been around since 1937 when it released the first Disney Princess movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, millions of young girls have fallen in love with these characters and often see them as role models. From the dresses to the tiaras, the beauty to the fairy tale, Disney Princesses have a direct effect on young girls and their behavior. The media has been a powerful resource through which many young girls develop their identity and come to understand gender roles in society. Research indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals’ gender based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Mastro & Morawitz 131). These are the attitudes and beliefs that young girls who watch Disney princess films would inherit. Girls enjoy watching these films and see the beautiful characters overcome difficult trials, as well as fall in love with a handsome prince in the end. The overall message is not a realistic one, leaving many girls feeling self conscious and unhappy. The idea that beauty equals good and ugly equals evil can negatively impact the way a girl looks at herself or others. Girls will ultimately learn that what is beautiful is good. Snow White and Cinderella were attractive and charismatic while the witch and two stepsisters were unattractive and vile. And in the end, the princesses lived happily ever after. The purpose of this...
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...Gender Roles in Disney Movies It is undeniable that the company that is leading to many generations in their child age is Disney. Who does not remember Mickey and Minnie Mouse?, Who has not thrown a tear when Snow White was poisoned by the evil witch?, Who did not want to ever be in the place of handsome John Smith or Pocahontas herself to revive their love story?, that tender these films, is not it, for example the Little Mermaid and Sebastian the crab song, who does not remember that song from "under the sea”? Has anybody ever wondered why the dwarves themselves did not do the housework when they came home once Snow White "moved in" with them? Or why an Indian as Pocahontas, falls for a murderer of thousands of his countrymen as was John Smith? Or why witches are always bad? Or why women are always in the background in these films (Hubka, Hovdestad & Tonmyr, 2009)? The world of Disney Princess began in 1937 when Snow White entered the world with the Seven Dwarfs (McRobbie, 2008). Since then it continued to add princesses in this world and the most recent movie was Tangled (Rapunzel) in 2011. In the past years, due to the lack of portraying ethnicity, Disney movie makers were highly criticized by their audience. Therefore, Pocahontas appeared in 1995 and after three years in 1998 came Mulan, which created a racially diverse collection of Disney princesses. After a decade The Princess and the Frog was released in 2009. It is important to understand that Disney plays an important...
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...is called “Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow” by Peter Hoeg. It was the intricate title that called my attention. I immediately thought about the Eskimos that have more than twenty different words for snow, but the question what exactly the book was going to be about still remained open. It was February, a fatiguing winter period and I was longing for someone with fresh approach to “icy” things that seemed totally unbearable by the end of the coldest season. I couldn’t but start the book that was like an enormous glacier, with arctic cold and frosty beauty coming from it. But let’s start from the beginning. First of all I’d like to introduce the author Peter Hoeg, who was born in Copenhagen in 1957, and despite graduation with a MA in Literature in 1984 he tried a variety of professions before settling on writing. "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow" is his second novel, and was first published in 1992. It went on to win the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. On the face of it the story seems to be a detective with queer decorations. But to analyze it I should inform you with the plot. On a cold December day in Copenhagen, a young boy named Isaiah falls from the snow-covered roof of their apartment block or, possibly, jumps trying to reach a neighbouring roof. The police, for obvious reasons, are inclined to write Isaiah's death off as an accident since his were the only footprints in the snow, it seems obvious that he was on the...
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...General Zaroff Character Analysis In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff is shown as insane, cool, and as a savage. Zaroff is shown to be insane in the story when he says he got bored of killing animals so he kills humans.’’My dear fellow, there is one who can.’’ said the general. “But you can’t mean--” gasped Rainsford. “And why not?” asked the general (Connell 69). This quote shows that Zaroff is insane because during this part, he confesses he kills people for sport. During the story, Rainsford is also Cool because he lives on his own island with a mansion and a buttler. He shows that he is cool when his butler answers the door for Zaroff and then he comes down his stairs and introduces himself and Ivan. The...
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...Becoming a Princess: The Transition From Individual to Sex Object (Ali Wachutka( rince Charming did not kiss Snow White to wake her. Ariel never really loved Eric. The Beast was not angry and violent. Mulan never fell in love with her general. At least not in the original versions of the stories; all these changes were added by Disney to make a more interesting movie, or to forward a sexist agenda. A multitude of sexist messages are present in Disney movies teaching young girls that they are expected to fill a submissive role in society. The fairy tales are symbolic of women’s lives being shaped by male influences. Over time, the sexist message in Disney movies has become less apparent, but it has never disappeared; it is merely buried within a classic fairy tale that the “magic of Disney” has transformed into a sexist lesson. Naturally, these movies must not have a traumatic affect on little girls. Parents are not actually harming their daughters by allowing them to indulge their fairy tale fantasies. Not according to Jack Zipes, leading expert on fairy tales and German professor at the University of Minnesota, the movies have “a type of gender stereotyping . . . that has an adverse effect on children, in contrast to what parents think . . .. Parents think they’re essentially harmless – they are not harmless” (Giroux, “Roared” 103). Maria Tatar, Harvard folklorist, also sees harm in the movies since “[Disney] capitalizes on the worst part of fairytales”...
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...skilled hunter and outdoorsmen. To begin with, Gale is quite protective towards Katniss and is always caring. First of all, after District 12 bombings Gale lead Katniss’ family and the rest of the district to safety. Katniss was not there during the bombings because she was in the games, but Gale had promised to keep her family safe. This not only shows the caringness of Gale, but it also shows the dedication towards Katniss and her family. Out of all of the survivors of the bombing Gale was one of the only ones who could lead everyone else to safety. It said, “The credit for the survivors’ escape has landed squarely on Gale’s shoulders, although...
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...common, both characters portray good and evil personalities. The twists in these stories will make one’s imagination run wild and they have the ability to entertain the mind. I. Introduction: The Most Dangerous Game and The Child by Tiger both character had a portrayed good and evil. II. The Most Dangerous Game short story by Richard Connell A. Major plot was to hunt human. B. To outsmart everyone he hunted. C. Thought he could control his destiny. III. The Child by Tiger short story by Thomas Wolfe A. Major plot no one is perfect B. How one can be easily misled by not knowing God for yourself? C. See both sides of good and evil. IV. Exodus 20:13, “Thou shalt not kill”. V. Conclusion Introduction “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe were meant for two different audiences, the saved and sinner. By the end of both stories one will quickly realize that both characters had killer instincts. Both stories fall in a fiction novel category. According to Zackheim & Zackheim (2015) attracts a broad audience. An unrealistic fiction is an unrealistic expectation. Dangerous Games “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story about two men, a hunter and the hunted...
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...Beast. The Walt Disney Company always cared about what the fans wanted and thought. By hiring a female script writer, Disney could make audience better understand feminism, especially at the time of third-wave feminism. The 1980s and 1990s movies, especially Beauty and the Beast, convey a feminist message because of the themes of inner beauty, progressive gender roles and freedom of choice. Beauty and the Beast presents the importance of personality and ambition over physical appearance. Some people argued that the message that being pretty is very important in princess movies is anti-feminist. They thought the pretty princesses suggested to young girls that women’s appearances were the most important feature. In previous princess movies, Snow White and Aurora did not have unique characteristics except being pretty. However, Belle and other 1990s princesses displayed new princess characteristics. In the beginning of Beauty and the Beast, the town people sang: “But behind that fair facade, I’m afraid she’s rather odd, very different from the rest of us,…” (Beauty and the Beast)....
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