FIND YOUR HOWL

In the first part of Flaum story it talks about Mumon, a red wolf who is on his way finding his howl. Being released into the wild after being forced into captivity, Mumon struggles trying to find his way in the world. Though many of the other wolves cannot figure out how to find their howl, Mumon knows that he needs it to survive. It did not take long for his hunger to get the best of him and compel him to hunt. Despite the fact that Mumon used to be handed food at certain times of the day, he began to let his inner instincts take over and hunt a deer. The fact he was letting his inner instincts take over him and began learning about what he actually was meant to be, “wild”, showed that Mumon was finding his howl. Thought at the end to truly find his howl ended up costing him his life; Mumon became the wolf he was meant to be. The main point to this story that I got out of it was not to lose who you are in the world. Let yourself be as “wild” as you were always meant to be. Don’t let society form you. The second part of the story Flaum talks about a paper that a Fifth grade student wrote in his class. In the section, the story is about a tiger that tries to escape from his cage at the zoo. However, instead of being freed he just got put into a different cage at a different zoo. Soon the tiger realized that he will always just be moved around from different cages to different zoos, he will never be stuck in one place.  The main idea I got from this passage was that sometimes you have to see the good in the worst situations. Life is not always going to go the way you want it to go, so its best to see the good it can provide.