Never Cry Wolf | Style

Never Cry Wolf Style

Point of View

Mowat chooses to write this story in the first person, which means the story is limited to what he sees and thinks. This is a skillfully chosen point of view because it serves to enhance the feelings of solitude that Farley felt during his stint in the arctic. By highlighting the solitude of the wilderness, Mowat separates the reader from the civilized world, an objective that must be achieved in order for Mowat to express his overriding theme: man's loss of what is natural. Through his thoughts and actions, we witness Mowat's pathetic attempts to disengage himself from society, but, much like the reader who must return to reality, so must Mowat return to the unnatural world of man. This point of view also serves to create a dynamic narrator. Mowat's point of view about wolves changes drastically throughout the book and because they are able to hear his thoughts,...
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