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Summary Of Woodchucks By Maxine Kuman

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In “Woodchucks”, Maxine Kuman describes the problem she has in her back yard with woodchucks. She goes into detail of the idea of killing them without hurting them by “gassing” them. She also had no mercy of the woodchucks when she shot at them. Kuman uses her experience with the woodchucks to explain the situation between the Nazis and the Holocaust victims.
The author begins by calling the gassing of the woodchucks “merciful” which is her idea of how to kill people by being lenient. Even though there is pain in gassing someone/something to death, it is not as severe as being killed by a gunshot. The author demonstrates her everyday situations and actions that he has committed. “I, a lapsed pacifist fallen from grace puffed with Darwinian

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