ESSAY

Deep in the dark forest of old England he sat ready to pounce. The Short story “The Hundredth” dove by Jane Yolen is a very enticing, but confusing book. During this book the author takes you to a small kingdom in a castle, where when the king is about to marry, the author does this through the eyes of a fowler. Even though this book was a bit confusing and felt like it was all gibberish the author wrapped it up quite nicely in the end.

The end was nice but the end would have been nothing if it was not for the setup that the author used in the beginning to pull the whole thing together. The first thing Yolan did was make it clear that the fowlers motto was serve and that nothing could stop him from disobeying it. The second reason I say that the begging set it up is because on the first page about ¾ down the page it says that he only dared to kiss the ladies ring. Later in this story the ring and his motto badge would be the whole key to this story. First the ring when he finally caught the white bird with his net and hand he saw the ring on the bird’s foot. Then the bird started to talk this is when the motto badge came to play. The bird tried to barging and persuade with the fowler twice but he refused, then the fowler showed the dove his motto badge. The dove tried one more time telling him that he would be able to marry the soon to be kings wife. As seconds went by he said yes and ripped off his badge agreeing. But in the end there was no marriage for the king or the fowler.

I think that this story was a fable. (Something that has a lesson or point to the story) Because when he ripped off his badge and threw it to the ground hoping to marry, but it turns out that he did not get married, and he lost a friend, the king. This all means that you should stick to your friends and be good to them and not be a trader behind their backs. Also that you should respect them and trust that they respect you too.

This story also relates to my life a lot because did not respect my friends once. I was having a airsoft war with my friends and I trapped one of them. Exactly when the fowler trapped the Dove. So he said you can be on our team if you don’t shoot and I said sure, just like when the fowler was tempted by the Dove. Then we went off to keep fighting I shot my old teammates after a while the same guy I trapped shot me. The same thing happened to the fowler instead of getting shot he never got to marry her.

Married or not the fowler lived a unhappy life alone in regret of his choice. The author could have done much better in her word choice example: Ran page 2 She could have used Sprinted and many other choices. That would have made this story much more interesting. Even though this book was a bit confusing and felt like it was all gibberish the author wrapped it up quite nicely in the end.