After reading this selection, I guess I can say that it was a good short story. The literature was a little challenging to understand, and I had to reread the selection about 3 times to fully understand what it was saying. But after I did understand, I thought that this story was fairly well written. I think it was very intersting to learn that these two families that hated each other for land, could somehow make up in the end. Unfortunatly, it was under suppresed circumstances, being which the two men were trapped under a tree that had fallen. I think that it was very brave and very hard for one of the men to come out and say that he no longer wished to be enemies, rather settle their differences and become friends- something very unheard of. The other sad part was, as soon as they decided to not be enemies, they are eaten by wolves- or so you think. See, all three of these short stories we have read so far had a very vaugue ending that made YOU as the reader decided what happened. The endings of all three of these stories, as well, are suspensful, because they all end with something either going terribly wrong, or good.
I think that this story had a message too. The message, I think, is that you should not hold grudges and hate, rather make up your differences right away, because you might not have the chance or time you think. These men decided to make up their differences while stuck in the woods, alone. And now that they are about to be eaten by wolves, no one knows that they decided not to be enimies any longer, rather freinds.
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