Never Cry Wolf Characters

Never cry Wolf has very few characters, however they are the most important characters to the progression of the plot. Other than the few tribes Farley Mowat meets throughout the book there are Mike and Ootek who are two of the main characters including Mowat. Farley Mowat, the most important of the main characters, is on a mission to discover whatever or not the drastic decrease in caribou is at the fault of the arctic wolves or the fur and antler traders in the Canadian area. Throughout the book he runs multiple tests and gathers lots of information on the diet of the wolves as well as their social and territorial behavior. He eventually discovers the true cause of such a massacre of the caribou, was not the wolves, however was a case of an abundance of foreigners looking for cheap antlers. Within the first few days of his expedition, he had …show more content…
He was gone for a few months, however once he returned, he had brought a tribe member called Ootek, Mike became Ootek’s and Mowat’s studies and wished to assist in anyway possible. On page eighty Mowat said “ Ootek turned out to be a tremendous help. He had none of the misconceptions about wolves which, taken en masse, comprise the body of accepted writ in our society. In fact, he was so close to the beasts that he considered them his actual relations.” Since Ootek had spent many years living in close proximity of the wolves he was very knowledgeable and helped fill in some blanks in Mowat’s studies as well as give him tips. He also shared and old tribal tale to describe why the wolves were a help to the caribou. This tale describes of a time where the caribou were all getting sick and would soon die off until wolves were created to weed out the old and sick to allow the strong to prosper. Mowat was obviously skeptical, however later learned that Ootek wasn’t For from the truth with the relationship between the wolves and