For this week's blog we were to read an article called Find Your Howl by Jonathon Flaum. The stories are very interesting but do not really pose anything deeper than the title. However some parts do ask some deeper questions, the overall story in part ended kind of quietly.
The story is about a wolf who has been in captivity for so long that he lost his howl. The Howl to a wolf is like the driving force to their existence, and without it the wolf is meaningless. Anyways so he embarks on a quest to find this power again when he encounters his first moral dilemma, he was hungry so he need to kill a deer, but then he questions himself, saying "why do I need to kill in order to survive?". An interesting thought, but then he finds power from the deer's bones, until eventually he begins running. He's a different wolf now, stronger and more confident. The story takes a horrible turn. As the wolf is running he is shot by a hunter and then the author begins to pour on the most confusing symbolism I have ever read. The wolf had found his howl once he had died. Somehow the act of dieing and returning to his instinctual roots had reinvented this wolfs how, for as he was in captivity beforehand, and lost his survival genes.
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