Pursuing life in a surrounding wilderness as paradise is to equate isolationism urbanization. As life in the frontiers of the American wilderness in northwestern Montana progresses, so too do the environment and its inhabitants evolve into greater and lesser meaning in a ‘do-or-die’ world of constant colonization and recolonization.
In applying Fahnestock’s and Secor’s stases to the family’s view of animals in the Montana wildlife, PMLA is a poetry literary magazine, and therefore a breathing ground for discourse, just as the Montana wilderness is the stage for shrubs, deer, wolves, and homo-sapiens. In adherence “to the Baconian model: each report indicates that the experiments it will relate are part of a research program opening out routinely to further related experiments,” (87 Gross) relates directly to the self-conducted research by the family on the pack of wolves’ footprints. The urgent pursuit of hard fast evidence is the understanding that all components of scientific reasoning including the experimenter play vital roles in the collective outcome of the research as a whole. In other words, Bacon challenges Aristotle’s work as it prevails on the sense of the experimenter incoherently deciphering the world as if he is at the center of it, instead of a single functioning component of the greater whole.
This difference of analysis is viewed through the understanding of the family through two distinct lenses; the first as a viewer and decipher of the wild and its communication and action, and the second as the family being an equal component of the changes within and around the wilderness.
