The Hundredth Dove Essay
Dawn has finally come. The sun slowly rose; its light reflected the dew on the grass like sparkling crystals. One by one beautiful doves appeared onto the clearing like soundless mist. The fowler, hiding behind a rough rock, felt no pity for catching doves to give to the king. Slowly he took out his net and gracefully leaped up, catching as many doves as he could. He must remember “Servo” (I serve) it was his motto and he must obey it. In the amazing story “The Hundredth Dove” by Jane Yolen, Huge, the main character, learns a great lesson the hard way.
An example is that if you obey something/someone and do everything they ask without question, it’s like you’re a robot. You don’t know what is good and what is bad. You think that you must do it because you’re told to do it. And you loose sense of yourself because you’re saying “Oh I know this is bad, but my master told me to do it so it’s okay.”
When you’re in someone else’s control many bad things happen. This happens to many people. For example if someone really needs money and a person offers you money to go steal something, you would probably go and do it because you are so dedicated to getting that money. This is what happens to Huge because he is so dedicated to his motto “Servo” that Huge ends up killing the woman he loves, because Huge thought he needed to serve.
When Huge killed the woman he loved, he finally got the message. Huge woke up from his dozy dream of obeying everything the king told him to do. Like many people, Huge felt horrible and sad for what he’d done. Just like other people feel bad for their mistakes. So by obeying the king, Huge paid a great consequence. This is a great lesson for everyone, because you need to always have your conscious on you. You need to decide what is right and what is wrong. Because in the end things will probably backfire on you. In the amazing story “The Hundredth Dove” by Jane Yolen, Huge, the main character, learns a great lesson the hard way.
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