THE JOURNEY OF HENRY TUKEMAN

(By: Yeltsin Rome E. Antiporda)

The story was about the journey of Henry Tukeman, who secured the specimen of the “Conradi Mammoth” in museum at Washington, U.S.A., in the story, he said that it was a big issue among continents and scientist during that time. He was also been tagged as unpatriotic because he prefer to give the specimen of the mammoth to the other country. As explained by him, he chose the bigger offer because he is just a poorman and he needs to make his dream in reality.

In the story, Henry Tukeman personally tells the story on how did he captured the Mammoth. In the story, it all begun an 1890 when he stayed at the Yukon he met the black people and become a family with them, sometimes he saw an old picture of an old Elephant and due to curiosity and to give humor to one of the old Indian men, he let them tell the tale of the animal.

Moreover he also narrates the way how they hunting animals in different rivers and valleys. It was a tragic parts on the animals mentioned in the story. And finally at the last part of the story He was able to narrate how did they killed the Mammoth.

With the story, I was able to think and ask if Mammoths are really existing. I was also curios on what really Mammoths looks like. With the use of technology, I was able to search about it. There are some claims that these animals are actually not existing. There are also claims that they were able to hunt Mammoths before but with the study conducted in Washington, it was proven that there is no found body of a mammoth and it was considered to be Hoax story.

To a simple student like me, I found the story very interesting, I found it very exciting because it opened me into another world of which is totally different from what we have especially here in our place. It also opened me to the creatures that almost of the people in the world haven’t seen those personally.

Technically the story is told in the first person point of view. The writer himself Henry Tukeman, narrates the story on how did he submits and capture a Mammoths.

The Characters were him, the Indian people he met, the animals they hunt and the scientists.

In the setting of the story, it uses the flash backing techniques where he started narrating on how he submits the specimen and he introduced the museum. He also describes the Rivers they crossed, the valleys they climb and the animals they have seen.

He ended the story with the narration nonhow the mammoth cried when they shoot it.

There are some conflicts that were present in the story. Man to man conflict where Henry Tukeman and scientist are arguing about the specimen if who will have it. Man versus himself. His struggle of being poor so he choose the higher offer. Man versus animals, told during the hunting of the animals.

About the author, according to the Smithsonian paleontology expert, Charles Schuchert in his press conference said and explained that Henry Tukeman was really an American short story writer. This means that this story could either be a product of his imagination. Either fiction or not, the story might interest the reader.

On the other hand, the story may not be friendly enough for the children. It may create fear, and disturbance of the mind of the children because it talks about the brutal killing of some animals even beast. Though hunting is the life of the people in the story, it may still not suitable for some reader who cannot relate about hunting. The story also may create negative impression and disappointments on some reader because of its being tragic in the ending.

The story somehow awakens the curiosity of the people in discovering new and ideas and discoveries.

In the Broader sense, the piece totally is a narrative story which may exercise the mind of the reader. It helps every reader to imagine things and creature beyond they can imagine. The piece may be good in the part of cognitive development but somehow negative on the part of the animal lovers and animal welfare advocates. The piece may promote immoral acts against animals and some creatures. I personally get hurt imagining how does a mammoth died in the arms of hunters. I cannot imagine animals running and jumping, looking for food and caring their family which suddenly killed by a human.

Technically the story was creatively told but sad to say it awakens the moral sense of being a human. It shows the hunger of the human for wealth, hunger for fame, hunger for foods, it also show the negative acts of human against animals. It tells us also that we human are the one who harms the creatures which are different from us. Either the creature is big or small we human should take care for them.

Lastly this piece should be used in a right occasion, right manner and careful sense. The piece might be critical for some students if this not might be explained clearly. It may promote violence to animals and disrespect to therelives.

But with the great teachers who might use the story as a part of improving the care of animals and other creature, it may be a good venue that will awaken the people it give respect and value the life on earth. The story or the piece will also be a great challenge for us youth to create new stories, stories that will bear no doubt to the reader by adding facts and evidences.

The story of Henry Tukeman, might be fiction and not true, it is still very good piece created by an intelligent man because it causes a lot of people to people to argue, discuss and study like what we are doing.

This story is an opinion because it is not true that there is a mammoth. And it have a bias because the author favoured himself and he` did not value the mammoth that they killed. It is also false claim because of the study conducted in Washington, it was proven that there is no found body of a mammoth and it was considered to be Hoax story. So it is false claim because the story have no solid evidence. And the story can be fall into slanting because the author committed an illegal doing which is killing an animal and this issue is not discussed in the story in fact, he focus his story to the hunting of animal but it have a same result he killed an animal. The author use a hedging word such as; probably.