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An Analysis Of Never Cry Wolf

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In the book, “Never Cry Wolf,” there are two different opinions as to why the deer population is declining. The first opinion is the one the government wants to impress on people, and it is the one that most people believe. They believe that the decline in the population of deer is being caused by the wolves. “…because their grievance is the complaint that the wolves are killing all the deer, and more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer” (Mowat 9). They believe that the wolves are vicious and that they kill for enjoyment. This belief is contradicted by the fact that the locals were allowed to kill fifty-thousand deer every year.
The second opinion is one shared by Farley Mowat. “‘Ask

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