“The Moose and the Sparrow,” by Hugh Garner at first seemed to be a typical animal moral story because of the title. As I began to read, I thought it wouldn’t bring any interest in my mind, nevertheless as soon as I finished reading it, my head was puzzled from a vague ending. First I assumed the Maddon Moose’s death from a fall was an accident. Since he was drunk, he could’ve lost his step on the fallen log. Also, his worker Cecil was very introverted and quiet character and seemed like a person who couldn’t carry out the murder. Moreover, “Maddon was a big moose of a man, even for a lumber stiff, with a round flat unshaven face that looked down angrily and dourly at the world.” Compared to him Cecil was “hardly taller than an axe-handle,…show more content… Anderson by doing thorough search on the site. Firstly, Maddon was on the way home drunk after drinking and playing poker in Camp Three with Lefevre according to Mr. Anderson’s speculation. But later Lefevre told him that he hadn’t gone over to Camp three and it suggests some suspicion. Secondly, it’s odd and shocking that Maddon, who had been as surefooted as a chipmunk and the best man in a log rolling contest in a whole camp, had fallen to the deep ravine. Thirdly, when Mr. Anderson woke up in the early morning, Cecil was wide awake and dressed and was plaiting a copper wire for a watch strap. Furthermore, he has found the bottom of the trunks of two small trees near the ravine were marked by wire loops. This detection adds more skepticism to it. Lastly, he has made a conjecture of Cecil tying wire across the tree and made footbridge just high enough to catch a man on the shin and trip him so he falls into the ravine. To sum this up, since Cecil has severely tolerated Maddon’s grim prank, he could have carried out the plan as shown above as a revenge. As a consequence, Moose Maddon ended up falling into the deep ravine and
