Like Ike McCaslin of Faulkner's "The Bear," Billy becomes an expert at hunting a powerful, mysterious, elusive beast. Both boys must become students of nature and of ancient values before their goals can be realized.
The first section of the novel may also remind readers of Jack London's White Fang (1906) and the scene in which Billy shoots the she-wolf to protect her from further suffering has.....
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