

Spike Millen is the leader of the manhunt who undergoes changes as the novel progresses. The attempts to reveal some understanding of the unorthodox manhunt which still even today remains futile, have lead Rudy Weibe to provide us with a fascinating perspective on the story itself. Many hours of research, writing, and speculation has resulted from the famous arctic pursuit of the mad trapper by the R.C.M.P. "The Mad Trapper" by Rudy Weibe is an insightful novel that provides the reader with a excellent three-dimensional picture of the adverse conditions that are confronted in the northern setting.

Because of extreme isolation, with very little room for distraction, Mowat communicates new discoveries of the Canis lupus and through time he reveals that wolves are fellow creatures and have a equal right to live. Once assigned to this futile and desolate tundra his task flourishes with great resolution and interest. Upon receiving his assignment the "Lupine Project" we learn about Mowat's interest and love of the study of living animals in their own habitat. I think that if you, the reader, were to focus on how isolation influenced Mowat's methodology of study, you would recognize how it inadvertently became his ally. Isolation, in term of its influence in the novel, remains incredibly prevalent. People are starting to take their environment less for granted. are learning to adapt and work with the wildlife rather than against it. If it is posing a threat to you alright, but don't eradicate the whole species because of one incidence.Īccording to a article in the JuneJuly 1987 issue of "Outdoor Canada" people in the N.W.T. The point is that not many reasons are legitimate. Are there any circumstances under which people should be permitted to kill wolves? You could come up with a reason, just as there are circumstances when people should be permitted to kill other people. Only 1200 wolves in the whole north, at this rate our destiny surely spells disaster.

"the elimination from this planet of a fellow creature which has at least an equal right to life" I think people need to look at how we coincide with nature in the future. I hope there is still time to prevent another human error against nature. Compare this to the 2000 the year before. When the book was published there was no more than 1200 wolves existing. And he concluded with the realization that the wolf in fact is very different from the wolf of a legend. He found out the meaning behind the Eskimo saying, "the wolf keeps the caribou strong." Mowat observed strong family ties among wolves and he finished his long assignment by having great compassion for them. He learned something of their language and how they conveyed "news" over great distances. Mowat is dropped alone on the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways of life.
