In the local village of Gubbio, a ferocious wolf was terrorizing the town at night by killing people and eating livestock. The people called out to St. Francis to stop the problem, so St. Francis went to the countryside where the wolf lived in order to confront the beast. Many people from the village watched from a distance in awe as the wolf and St. Francis both approached each other. The wolf was growling fiercely and looked to attack Francis immediately; however, St. Francis made a sign of the Cross and spoke to the wolf, “Brother Wolf, you do much damage in these parts, and you have committed great crimes, destroying and slaying the creatures of God without his permission. ...
A couple days later, Buck encountered a pack of wolves. Frightened at first, the wolves started attacking Buck, but every wolf that attacked him was attacked right back. After the fighting was over, Buck noticed his wild brother, who then introduced him to the old wolf. When they met up, the wolves started howling and Buck realized that they were who he was supposed to be with, and he started howling too. Right after they were down howling they ran into the forest and Buck was right behind them.
Joss meets his first trainer Malek he learns a lot from him till the local hive of vampires murders Malek. During this time at the camp several other trainers are murdered by the local hive leaving Joss alone with everyone pointing the finger of blame at him for the murders. The second part of the story is Joss’s fight with the local hive and realizing that his best friends Kat’s father is the leader of the hive. Joss spies on the local hive
Here lay a number of old men covered with wounds, who beheld their wives dying with their throats cut, and hugging their children to their breasts, all stained with blood. There several young virgins, whose bodies had been ripped open, after they had satisfied the natural necessities of the Bulgarian heroes, breathed their last; while others, half-burned in the flames, begged to be dispatched out of the world. The ground about them was covered with the brains, arms, and legs of dead men. Candide made all the haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy. Thence continuing to walk over palpitating limbs, or through ruined buildings, at length he arrived beyond the theater of war, with a little provision in his budget, and Miss Cunegund's image in his
(152) This is the chant that Jack had created after their first kill. This is also the chant the group was crying out when they killed Simon. As a result of Jack getting caught up in hunting, the sight of Simon crawling out of the bushes he orders everyone to attack and kill ‘the beast’. Jack illustrates that when humans get lost in an activity,
Talks about the family and how what they did to Angela was bad. How Angela married and gives birth to their child Male who they now call Francis (I think). Francis see’s a dying dog and compares the blood of his father and the dog. He says they are the same. However, the dog is dying and his father merely bit his tongue.
Another example of a parent giving of themselves to help their child is in the book, Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver. Torak’s father took him away from the Wolf Clan so that he could teach him the most important survival skills. His father was a soul-eater and knew one day the Beast would come to kill him. Even though Torak would have been happier living amongst the Clan, he took him away so he could prepare to live in solidarity when the time came. It was a difficult lesson for Torak to learn, but when his father was killed by the Beast, he knew how to
Asta's son is heartbroken from the loss of his mother. Worst yet Asta's son’s is blamed for a murder that he did not commit. Asta's son is soon declared as a "wolf's head" (wanted dead or alive). Asta's son runs out of the village and begins the journey to discover whom he really is. Asta's son hides in the forest, and one day hears a conversation between John Ayecliffe, the village steward, and another person.
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
Death, something we will all meet at one time or another weather its personally caused or not, one way or another we will all meet the grave one day. For the book Of Mice and Men this is apparent as animals and people are killed and or murdered. The first to go is Candy’s dog, he is taken out by Carlson because he was old, blind, and ridden with arthritis, the dog was killed out of mercy not because he was a trouble maker, or that he was bad but because the dog was at the end of his time and it was time to put him down this hits Candy hard, he has owned that dog since it was but a pup and now they were telling him it was time to put him down on page 25 of the online book it says, “A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man. Every head turned toward him.