Julie of The Wolves Art Connections By William Fung
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A Friend In Need Cassius Coolridge This painting really
embodies the first few chapters of the story because, Julie is
stuck with a pack of wolves, they acknowledge that she is there but
they do not care about her, it is as if she is playing a poker game
with the wolves but she keeps on getting a bad hand, until she
finally communicates with them, the wolves are trying to win the
poker tournament and continue on with their lives, but Julie needs
to communicate with them and use the wolves to her advantage to
keep herself alive, or trying to read their pokerface
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The Potato Eaters Van Gogh While Julie is with the wolves she
has barely anything to eat, and the wolves dont give her any food
in the first few moments that she is incorporated in their pack, so
she has to eat moss that grows around the wolves den until they
actually start feeding her, which connects to this picture of
people eating potatoes and nothing else, it connects because they
have nothing else to eat, like how Julie has to eat moss.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Katsushika Hokusai To me, the
Great Wave represents the troubles that Julie has, she is being
overrun by them, she runs away from home, in Alaska, to go to San
Francisco because she was miserable at home. She is eventually
troubled because she is overrun by the hardships of communicating
with the wolves, and because it seems like she gets rescued, but
the planes just fly over her and do not spot her, which is like a
giant wave crashing down on her ship of hope.
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American Gothic Grant Wood In this picture, I see a family, and
it can represent many things in the story. Julies dad went missing
in the seas while she was young, and I believe the woman can be the
embodiment of Julie, because shes looking over at her father as if
shes a bit, worried or, disgruntled. Another reason on why it
connects to Julie is because of how disappointed or sad she looks,
she doesnt smile, she doesnt look happy at all, if anything, a bit
angry, thats probably why she ran away from home.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer The girl in the
painting looks a bit argued, as if she is looking back at something
with something heavy in her head. This reminds me of Julie when she
goes Julie is goneI am Miyax now (George 104) It connects because
the girl is conveying the same emotions that Julie is letting out,
turning back as if shes saying goodbye before she leaves, and in
Julies case, she leaves to go to San Francisco, saying goodbye to
one of her friends before she started to walk away, even the girls
eyes show a bit of resentment.
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Buffalo Hunt, Under Wolf Skin - George Caitlin This painting
connects to the book because it shows a hunt in progress, and
throughout the book, Julie hunts along with the wolves and become
part of the pack. That also means joining in hunts, and that is the
part that connects with the book, it is because the pictures shows
wolves and it also shows the humans under the wolves, which to me,
symbolizes Julie trying to incorporate herself into the pack via
hunting with the pack.
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Happy Eskimo's - Aleta Parks The painting shows two eskimos and
a wolf inbetween. It symbolizes Julies relationship with her
husband, Daniel, who she had met when she was in elementary school.
In the book, her reason to live was now Amoraq, the leader of the
wolf pack, who she loves, But not Daniel. Im [Julies] a wolf now,
and wolves loves leaders (George 61) So the wolf is seperating the
two apart by being inbetween them, but at the same time, the two
are holding hands, which represents their marriage together.
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Inuit Whale Hunt Lewis Parker Julie was forced to go to school
by law, and the picture is a Inuit hunting party going out to sea.
This literally represents Julies father, who went out to sea on a
hunting trip and never came back, leaving Julie with her mother.
The picture symbolizes the passing and the deaths of Eskimos, going
out to hunting and never returning, like Julies father and the rest
of his hunting group.
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Looking Back Liang Jun Yan This painting shows an old woman,
looking backwards with a resentful smile, or a frown and closed
eyes as if she were crying. This really speaks to me because, near
the end of the book, Julie goes to a coastal town, finally reaching
back to mankind, and she sang out Go away, royal wolf, go away, do
not follow. Im a gun at your head, when I pass the oil drum Which
meant that once she passed onto civilization, the wolves would be
killed by the hunters in the town, so she has to say goodbye to her
pack, this image really captured the moment because the old woman
looks really sad, and it also shows how much Julie has grown.
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The Scream Edvard Munch The Scream, one of the most paintings
in the world, wraps up the entire ending of the story, starting
with the injury of Kapu, a pack member, who was fired on by one of
the residents of the coastal town, and no-one helped, which lead
Julie to a scream, because no-one was going to help and she had to
run away with the rest of the wolves back to the tundra. Then, all
of the wolves were howling [or screaming] for help from Amaroq, the
pack leader.
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