Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat and its Informative Style

Ishaan Patel 5th hour 

          Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat is an amazing novel and very informative. It also tells us the story of a man who goes to the Barrens to study wolves. A scientist who wants to know the wolves very well so they he travels to Ottawa, Canada. Then, he gets dropped of in the middle of a forest where wolves were or the Barrens. From there on, he studies the wolces that live in the forest and the Eskimo culture. The style, informative, is used in this novel greatly and effectively. His style is very admirable. I admire his style, infirmative, in this book, too. His style is characterized in the informative category. His style is showed in many pages of the novel. He also uses great diction and syntax throughput the novel. For example, "His attitude of fatigue vanished and was replaced by a look of bewilderment" (83). He uses big and key words in this sentence. The words are also set up in a very sophisticated sequence. These big and key words he uses make the text sound informative. This means diction and syntax create a informative and a better (understanding of the) novel. The structure of the sentence also makes the text sound informative. He uses these big and key words to help his experiment and conclusion which also makes the text informative. This is how the text demonstrates the style, informative, and how well syntax and diction is used in this text. Another example is, "The results of the analysis were most interesting. Some 48 per cent of the seat contained rodent remains, largely incisive teeth and fur" (227). This text is telling us that he is writing his conclusion to the observations of the wolves. Usually, when you write a conclusion, it is informative and it was. It tells us a fact or a result of the observations which is informative because it tells us that his conclusion is informative, like the rest of the book, because it has facts and results.

          Imagery is used very well in this novel. It allows you to see things in your mind going on in the book. Figurative language is used but not as good and much as imagery. Imagery really helps the ready understand the book. It's impact on the book and reader is big and positive. For example, "As I looked about me at the stark and cloud-topped hills, the waste of pressure-rippled ice, and, beyond the valley, to the desolate and treeless roll of tundra, I had no doubt that this was excellent wolf country" (35). As you can see, there is very well used imagery in this sentence. The imagery in the sentence truly gives us an idea about what the Barrens look like. The imagery words in the sentence, cloud-topped, pressure-ripples, treeless, valley, and tundra, really helped the reader picture the Barrens in his mind. That's how powerful imagery is. It can make the reader picture things on his mind so it is kind of like they are watching a movie about the novel. The reader of Never Cry Wolf now knows that the Barrens have no trees, are cloudy, have crushed ice, and many other things. This impact is huge toward the reader and book. It is also effective. Another example is, "A small streak ran through it. It also embraced an area of grassy marsh which was alive with meadow mice: an ideal place for the pups to learn the first principles of hunting" (145). Now the reader knows what the surroundings of the new summer den for Angeline, George, Uncke Albert. And the pups looks like. The reader knows that the wolves are near water and food. This has a big impact in the book on the wolves, the reader, the narrator, and the book itself, too. The imagery of this sentence tells us that the wolves moved from there den, not near food and water, to the new which has food and water. This helps the narrators observations and conclusions because he knows now that the wolves move to a den close to food and water during the summer. This impacts the narrator because it gives him one more fact for his conclusion. This really helps his style, informative.

          The novel, Never Cry Wolf, is a very great novel to read. I liked it but at times it was boring because it was too much of a imformative and sophisticated novel for me. Although I liked it, I wouldn't recommend this book to all readers. The only readers that I would recommend his book to are the scientists, science loving readers, and animal (wolf) loving readers. Scientists would love this book because it's about science and how a scientist observes wolves and draws conclusions about what they do in life. Other people who are not scientists, science loving readers, or animal (wolf) loving readers should only read this book if they have nothing to do. If you have spare time, like I did, I would urge you to read this book. This book is great for scientists and science loving readers, and good for animal (wolf) lovers. For other readers, it would be a decent book for them. If you are not a scientist, science loving reader, or animal (wolf) loving reader, I would only read this book if you have spare time because it would help you past time and you might even enjoy it. In my opinion, this is a good pickup novel which is only good for reading on your spare time. Now if the reader were a scientist, science loving reader, or animal (wolf) loving reader, the reader should read this book pronto. Overall, the novel, Never Cry Wolf, is a novel meant to be read by certain people [scientists, science loving readers, or animal (wolf) loving readers] who can relate to this book.