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Part I (Pages 141 - 145)

• The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Carter, Angela. "The Company of Wolves." The Bloody Chamber. Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.

• This story is written from the collective first person point of view and in a mix of past and present tenses.

• In Part I, the narrator notes that only one beast howls in the woods at night, and it is the wolf.

• The eyes of wolves are like candle flames in the dark, and they gleam green if they are reflecting only moonlight.

• The collective howling of wolves is "an aria of fear made audible" (141).

• The season is winter, and it is very cold.

• The region is that of mountain and forest, and wolves in the area are in a state of starvation.

• Of all the terrible creatures - ghosts, hobgoblins, ogres, and witches, wolves are the worst...

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