Paper A “Hide your pets; the hunters are coming,” by Robert Reno, is an essay that takes a humorous look at deer hunting. Reno begins by creating a scenario that describes the ramifications a toy manufacture would incur if it had sold a toy that caused a multitude of casualties as the deer season has brought on. Reno continues by stating that “reports are already flowing of human accidents and fatalities”(A15). Several reasons why …showed first 75 words of 1250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1250 total…Vivid details are employed by Reno when he recalls his friends story of the ideal kill of a model deer as “a 10 pointer,” having a “perfectly symmetrical rack,” and was meticulously gunned downed as, “with such precision that he [the deer] collapsed right in front of the butchering shed”(A15). Freeman uses vivid details when characterizes the sounds of gun shoots as “a fusillade worthy of Antietam”(20). Reno’s and Freeman’s essays are entertaining.