‘MAMMOTHS ARE EXTINCT’

By; win right

The article “The Killing of the Mammoth by H. Tukeman” talks about how a group or tribe kill a mammoth by the collaboration of every person, how far did a person brave because it’s his son. Also, same goes to the eighth meets new tribes and new tales to tell about Tee-Kai-Koa or also known as “the devil’s footprint, how far did a person tried to find and kill a mammoth for fortune and lastly the secrecy that they kill a mammoth. However, different stories is not perfectly written depending on the author on how he/she can make the flow of the story, hence, different stories can also have flaws and making the reader not to easily understand it and that’s what makes it more interesting— suspense.

In the first paragraph the line “it was I Henry Tukeman, who secured the specimen of the ‘Conradi Mammoth’ as it has been called now in the Smithsonian museum, Washington U.S.A.,” can be as a claim of fact as it is not supported by further ideas and it can neither be true or false. “Many people will, undoubtedly, call me unpatriotic in thus allowing a foreign country to obtain this wonderful specimen” this part of the paragraph is considered as the opinions of the author or the first person point of view.

“but the statement that I was a ‘Hudson Bay man’ (an unpaid account was my mental justification), and the fact that I had some years’ experience with northern Indians” in the third part of the paragraph is called hedging wherein the author is making a clear stand on issue and it can also be a claim of fact because it can neither be true or false.

Fourth paragraph the line “ He is brave, Soon-thai” is a part wherein an informed opinion takes place thus it can also be a bias by the fact that the father favors his son and called him paragraph “Soon-thai is brave, plenty brave” maximum level of bias. “devil’s country, an’ I tell him it is the country called in Indian Tee-Kai-Koa or ‘the devil’s footprint’.” is an untested claim which can neither be true or false if supported by different evidences or researches.

In the fourteenth paragraph, “‘Suddenly Soon-thai throws up his gun, and before I can stop him, he fires-boom!’ ” Is a hedging statement from the word “can” and for making a clear stand for an issue.

Tee-Kai-Koa and a profound contempt for the superstition of its being a ‘devil’.” This statement is a form of an informed opinion for the author emphasizes that it has been its own idea or perception.

Twentieth paragraph; “‘we should go off together during the coming summer, and bag the mammoth’ ” is a form of hedging from the word “should” and by the fact that Paul made a stand. Twenty second paragraph “I shook old Joe cordially by the hand and promised to avoid ‘the devil’s footprint’” is a form of claim of value.

Also, in paragraph thirtieth wherein you can’t really say to whom the author is referring to and he’s somewhat manipulating the perception of the reader about the royal academy “His long, thick hair, hanging down beneath his belly like a fringe, had the effect of shortening considerably the appearance of his legs” and you can’t really understand the whole situation or the whole story in the paragraph, it only leads you nowhere, I quoted “it is idle for me to describe him closely, and I need only speak of the feeling of awe inspired by the sight of this stupendous beast” is an example of hedging.

Seen in thirty second paragraph “we had everything prepared, and we had but to prove the truth of my supposition, namely, that smoke would attack our quarry.” is an untested claim wherein the author needs more evidences to prove that the plan or what they had planned would work. While in thirty sixth paragraph, the author seems to not have to tackle directly about the issue of the mammoth to be captured due to the fact that they inserted the issue of Tee-Kai-Koa instead I think the author wants the characters plan to use Tee-Kai-Koa to scare the mammoth so that it’ll come to the direction where the trap is set only for the mammoth if it will work or triggered so that the mammoth will be captured.

In thirty seventh paragraph, the author did not indicated if who was attacking or screaming to the log-pile in the sentence “his enormous beneath it, he gave a mighty heave, and for a second lifted the whole mass of green logs”, making the reader confused if it is Tee-Kai-Koa or the mammoth that are making the “most appalling scream”. While in paragraph thirty eighth this line “I glanced at Paul, and saw him aiming and firing with a coolness that I envied” is a form of a bias, favoring only one person in a situation.

Making a clear stand happened in paragraph fortieth “but the end was drawing near, for the great brute” and manipulating the perception of every reader as to what the author say “a feeling of pity and shame crept over me as I watched the failing strength of this mighty prehistoric monarch”. In paragraph forty one, most of the happenings expressed on how did they catch or captured the mammoth and it can be false claims, thus, it can never happened in the real world. For the forty fifth paragraph, hedging happened because the author doesn’t want to tackle the issue on how they spent the rest of the dark winter days.

The story left me hanging if Tee-Kai-Koa was dead or not because after they kill the mammoth the author never tell what happened to the devil in the story. Nevertheless, as to what had been expected since the first paragraph, the author and Paul sold the specimen to Mr. Conradi with millions of dollars. And making the story far too advanced for some readers hence, it was a very nice story.