I remember watching nature shows on television and

seeing natural predation. There on the screen lions stalk,

chase, kill, and eat their prey. A true vision of animal

nature. Humans are also animals, therefore, possessing

animal nature. This animal nature can be witnessed every

fall as thousands of hunters across the United States forge

into the woods to stalk, kill, and eat their prey. Most

hunters even display the heads of their prey in their living

rooms as a testament to their animal nature.

Ed Gentry also touches his animal nature in James

Dickey's novel Deliverance. One weekend, Ed along with

three friends, Bobby, Lewis, and Drew decides to canoe down

the Cahulawassee river not knowing what trials laid ahead.

Drew is killed, Bobby sodomized, Lewis disabled, and Ed

severely wounded. Ed stalks and kills a man in order to

survive; and through Ed's need to survive in the wilderness,

he touches the animal nature within him.

Ed goes through life aimlessly. Eventhough he has a

wife, a boy, and his own business, Ed has no direction, no

purpose. Life is boring. Ed's only break from normal life

occasional excursions that he takes with his good

it still is, and will be until I die... The river

did because he found his wildness, his animal nature, "I

saw his face-- saw that he had a face-- for the

down the river to Aintry. As Ed and Bobby float down the

mountain man to a fate at the bottom of the river. Then Ed

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