The Spirit Animals Book Report

My book club book, The Roar by Emma Clayton is about a semi-apocalyptic, semi-dystopian, society where there hasn't been any children born for the past 30 years and this is ‘reasonable move’ as Mal Gorman says, because the Animal Plague has been spread rapidly. Not much is known about the animal plague until the very end of the story.

Published in 2014 by Bloomsbury in London, Ask The Beasts: Darwin and the God of love , is a book written by Elizabeth Johnson who turns her attention as to what she likes to call “the second big bang” which is evolution. Exploring the Christian tradition, she seeks to find an understanding of the religious meaning of the ecological world of species. Illustrating passages from Charles Darwin and his book “The Origin of species” and the Christian Story of the God of mercy and love in association with the Nicene Creed, she begins to talk about the relationship between the evolving world and God. In Chapters 2-4, Johnson focuses on the evolution of species and on Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. Next, Chapters 5-8 bring the Christian stories

Is this just another case? Is it just another news headline? Is it just another sick, twisted man who preys on those who are unable to protect themselves? Bret Anthony Johnston, the current Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, wrote Encounters With Unexpected Animals in 2012. Encounters With Unexpected Animals starts off with the protagonist (if you can call him that) Mr. Lambright, taking Lisa, his son’s girlfriend, home from school. In that time he has a “talk” with her about their relationship. In the short story, Johnston uses very suggestive language and many symbols to manipulate his readers into thinking one thing when it is quite the contrary. He hides, and to a lesser extent, foreshadows the eventual plot twist from shocked and

Animals by Simon Rich is an outstanding short story which takes a unique perspective on the everyday life in a classroom. The story is written from the point of view of a hamster who spends his tortured life entrapped in a cage. From the first point in this story, it is clear that the purpose of the writing is not to understand the hamster, but rather to analyze the different actions of the people, and to discover that how they act towards the hamsters reflects on their character. It is curious to view the everyday interactions of people through a different set of eyes, that is done by humanizing the narrator’s perspective. Based on the actions of the many people and the treatment of the class pet, the author suggests that human nature is very much a product of the financial circumstances a person is subjected to.

One of the most controversial aspects of this method was the use of animals to portray different races of people. The use of animals as human races shows the reader the ideas of the Holocaust a lot more forcefully than simply using humans as the characters.

      Two rats and a cat are used as symbols in Richard Wright's Native Son.  The rats, one found in an alley and the other in Bigger's apartment, symbolize Bigger.  Mrs. Dalton's white cat represents white society, which often takes the form of a singular character.  "Parallels are drawn between these animals and the characters they represent at key moments during the novel" (Kinnamon 118).  These parallels help the reader identify with Bigger and understand why he acts the way he does.  The animal imagery in Native Son explains some of Bigger's behavior and generates sympathy for Bigger and fear of whites.

In today’s culture people are not individuals they are consumers and they have lost their ability to have their own experiences. In “The Loss of the Creature” by Walker Percy, he talks about why people have lost their sovereignty and how they can get it back. There are a lot of things that people can do differently and regain their individuality back from the consumer culture that they live in.

When it comes to animals, everyone seems to have an opinion. Some love them, some hate them. Some believe that animals feel and experience authentic emotions, while others believe that they do not have the capability to do so. A lack of belief in the existence of emotions in animals is often used to justify wrongful treatment. Are some animals more aware of feelings than others? These questions and more demand answers. Animals definitely have emotions, and because of this we must rethink many of our modern practices.

There is such kind of monsters, remain their appearance as a human, yet the things they do can only describe as monstrosities. They are not monsters in books and literature, a fear of unknown or sexual desires. People were, or still are facing actual brutal violence or psychological terror from those monsters. More importantly, the monster being talked here is one of our kind. They are human, yet described as “inhuman”, under the inhuman category of Stephen T. Asma’s book On Monsters, a bloody history, a dark past of humanity have been introduced as a monster. It is Khmer Rouge’s infamous security prison S21: the representation of the massacre took place in Cambodia in 20th century and this kind of monster, unfortunately, is still relevant to the world, even till this day.

Imagine you are having dinner with your family, at your favorite restaurant. You exchange stories about your day along with smiles and laughter. Now imagine suddenly being knocked out, and the next thing you know, you are taken away from your family, confined in a cage in captivity. You notice instruments near you and realize it's for experimentation. You cry out in protest, but they continue anyway. This is the life of many animals who are vulnerable and can’t defend themselves against neglect and abuse. Therefore it is our moral responsibility to protect animals. Animals should have certain rights to protect them from being treated inhumanely. Animals are similar to humans and shouldn’t be experimented on, held in captivity or have their natural habitats destroyed.

Throughout the course of history, many people have used the power of language to manipulate audiences to gather support for their personal agenda or gain. Donald Trump speech is an example of using the power of language to manipulate people. President Donald Trump told about two dozen chief executives of major U.S. companies that he plans to bring many millions of jobs back to the United States. When it comes to the topics of bringing jobs back people will readily agree. In the article “A Change Of Heart about Animals”, Jeremy Rifkin, author and president of the foundation of economic trends in Washington D.C, suggests in a seemingly, unbiased fashion, that animals “are more like us than we had ever imagined” (Rifkin). With the support

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, he discusses multiple stories relating to an unknown “creature” in our lives. Life is about our experiences. It is important to explore the world whenever we get the opportunity, but we must look at the world through a new perspective in order to truly see it. Walter Percy indirectly tells us, the most worthwhile kinds of experiences are not the ones we plan, but the ones we don’t quite expect to happen. My mother planned a vacation for my family and I looking for that once in a lifetime experience. She decided that the experience would take place in Hawaii, the Aloha State. Unfortunately, that once and a life time experience she was searching for, would not be the highlight

To begin, I dissagree with the David Wilkerson because I think that you should rescue wild animals. In this story I am going to state my reasoning about why I do not support David Wilkerson's oppinion and I am going to state his oppinion against mine. You will find that both of ours are completely different. Yet I am mostly going to explain my oppinion.

When you hear about an animal that stands up to six and a half feet tall and weigh 2,200 pounds; with horns, two feet long curving up for fighting and able to run 40 miles per hour. You automatically think a beast or monster, which you’re not that far off. Being the largest land animal in North America, bison have often been called beasts and as an above, they deserve that title.

the method they use was animals to make different races of people. The use of animals as human races shows us the ideas of the Holocaust more straight forward than using humans as the characters.