I enjoyed how Le Guin used the option of telling the story from another point of view that wasn’t human. The author starts off subtle with how they met, he was kind in the beginning. Ever since the husband went hunting, his attitude has changed towards her and the kids. Suddenly his kids began to be frightened of the dad. When the narrator described the husband as “and the ears gone, and the eyes gone blue….staring at me out of that flat, soft, white face. He stood up then on two legs.” it gave me a description of what the husband looked like and he’s definitely not human. My question is, are they really wolves or something else? Le Guin didn’t directly mention what they were. Why did he turn aggressive?
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Professor: Jessica Penner
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I agree, the author did start off the story very subtle which lead me to believe that I was going to read about an average family. The details throughout the story were very good and added a lot to the story as a whole.