The Deer Of Providencia Summary

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The Deer of Providencia is about deer being tied to a tree. 4 North Americans come and saw the deer, instead of helping, they were watching it suffer, the Native Americans move on and started to eat lunch, and watch the helpless deer struggle. This show they are very inconsiderate and thoughtless. It shows that animals just don’t get the same right as we humans do.

“Life has no Justice,” “Trying to paw itself free of the top, it had scratched his neck with his hooves, and raw underside showed red stripes and some bleeding in muscles.” ( page 38, paragraph 38) This shows that deer had dug a hole for itself, and was trying its best to survive .“ we watched the deer, and nobody said much.” ( page 40, 67) This shows they have no sympathy for animals and how inconsiderate people can be. They accept the deer suffering is for their gain, and pain of life is their benefit. People treat animals like they have no emotions. Watching animals suffer persistently, but not to reacting to it, is the lack of humanity. Which we must develop to make other life better and ours
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When the deer was dead, she didn’t try to save it, but she comforts burned man. Annie Dillard shows that burns seem superior to the suffering of deer death. This shows they have no feeling for deer. And when the deer was suffering, all the men and children treated this as a source of entertainment. This shows humans don’t have feeling or even understand other creatures