Review for Giovanni Exploratory writing

Natalie Beech
English 1101

“On the Edge of Comfort”

The Giovanni uses the Wolf to help her explain the role of storytelling in people lives. I think she uses the Wolf as “something to demonize,” but the Wolf/dog has always been there with us. Like what she writes, “just a campfire next to the covered wagon carrying food supplies while the cowboys slept on the cold hard ground that the creature offered warmth and became our friend.” The Wolf has been with us a very long time and has been in so many of our stories and sat next to the fire while they are being told. She also uses that she feel bad for the Wolf. That it has endured so much of what we have and yet we treat them so bad. We all need someone to blame and the Wolf has been something we can blame, but the Wolf has always been there for us and with us. She later writes on that “Quilt across our knees. Check. Glass of Wine. Check. Munchies. Check. Dog at our feet. Check. Short Stories. Check. This is good.” This really ties with what she is trying to say about the Wolf. That he is always there. Always listening to the stories and at our feet.

  I choose Joshua’s writing on Giovanni’s “On the Edge of Comfort” because I like how he explains how she uses the wolf as something to Demonize. I agree. Like how the wolf in almost every story is a bad wolf who blows down little pigs houses, or how the wolf eats grandmas and stocks little girls with cookies. But I also like how Joshua points out how the dog/wolf is always been there with us. Dogs are supposedly mans best friend. Joshua points this out in his writing by quoting Giovanni’s writing when she said, “She later writes on that Quilt across our knees. Check. Glass of Wine. Check. Munchies. Check. Dog at our feet. Check. Short Stories. Check. This is good.” This really ties with what she is trying to say about the Wolf. That he is always there. Always listening to the stories and at our feet.” Because dog are mans best friend. I think that wolfs would be like our pet dogs too if they were raised the way we raise our dogs. I liked Joshua’s writing how he said, “just a campfire next to the covered wagon carrying food supplies while the cowboys slept on the cold hard ground that the creature offered warmth and became our friend.” That proves that wolfs can be mans best fiend I still think that people demonized the wolf just because of the werewolf stories that are scary and mysterious.