Davis 1
Dewhitte H. Davis
Daniels
ENG1301
February 13, 2004
Philosophy of Duck Hunting
Party by night, sleep by day, classes never before 11am, this is the rule of thumb for most college students, but rules are meant to be broken, especially during duck season. For most people they think of duck hunting as the slaughtering of poor innocent animals, and the desecration of the environmental balance, but obviously, they have never been duck hunting. Life is full of monotony and too much time is spent leading a life that serves no real purpose, so if you feel that sometimes your just another brick in the wall, maybe you should go for a duck hunt.
The breaking darkness unfolds as the birth of a new day invades a good dream. Your hand hurts as you hit the snooze button with incredible force, it's still dark outside and you find yourself thinking "why the hell am I awake right now." Slowly rising to consciousness you realize, "Oh yeah! I'm going duck hunting." There's nothing like the feeling a man gets when he wakes up in the morning and gets to leave the house without shaving, showering, or matching ?except for the green, brown, and black. A bowl of cereal and a glass of Orange Juice, and out the door you go. All the things in the world, politics, war, hunger, Rogaine, Viagra, these things no longer concern you, it's all meaningless now.
Davis 2
The one basic instinct that humans have lost, primarily due to modernization, is our basic instinct for survival, the little voice inside us all that cries out "eat or be eaten." The hunt, the kill, such a pre-modern necessity to our survival as a race, is now equivalent to an appendix. ...