Similarities Between Kill The Badger And Thinking Like A Mountain

In both essays, “Thinking Like A Mountain” by Aldo Leopold and “Kill the Badger!” by William S. Burroughs, they deal with the encounter of wild animals. They illustrate in how they handled or witness the animals’ final fate in the hands of man power. The Sierra Club, can analyze that within both essays, there can be spotted some similarities in these scenarios or how the author's detailed and reason each story. The differences behind each killing in these two essays’ is that ,only one of them comes to reflect on his actions.
“Thinking like a Mountain”, by Aldo Leopold, the author begins the story describing the environment and creatures that inhabit the mountains. Detailing that within those mountains live packs of wolves who can be heard but not necessarily seen; arguing that it takes someone naïve not to know they inhabit the mountains (Leopold). Leopold was having lunch one day in those mountain and not wanting to pass up the chance of a wolf hunt, shot it at site. Later to question whether his decision was the best choice for both him and the mountains. In the

Burroughs, retells the story of when a counselor took the school boys outside by the campfire to tell them stories , when a badger appears too close to the young boys. The counselor quickly pulls out his gun to shoot at it, leading it to his dreadful death of the badger at the end of the stream. (Burroughs 14)
Moreover, there is a certain theme in the first essay by Leopold. From the reading one can see throughout the essay the theme of man vs. nature, or man dominance. Leopold explains how when you see a wolf you kill it, “we have never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf”, (Leopold). Explaining how he sees it beneficial because they are killing the deer’s main predator, granting more hunt for the hunter. He saw no wrong in killing an animal in the