Senses+-+Who+Goes+There

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__Destinee, Ana, Melanie, and Josh__** "The acrid odor of burnt cooking fat and the animal, not unpleasant smell of dogs diluted by time, hung in the air." Why did the author use this to describe the smell of the place and how does this connect with the rest of the story?" The author uses scent and sound to lead the reader to a bigger and major event in the story. In the story the author uses the readers senses to make the story become alive to them and to show how something weird can be. The characters in the story __**Who Goes There?,**__ work their way out to solve some of the mysteries that they are surrounded by using their senses. For example when Copper explained to everyone the hoof-and-mouth disease that was how he sensed the spreading of the thing would be. Should we trust our senses? We shouldn't always trust our senses because often people can have hallucinations, which is when you see something that is not actually there. This is an example that our senses should not be trusted completely.Any one of our five senses could be telling us one thing, but the reality could be another. In many ways to our surrounding in order for us to be aware of it. They also help distinguish what is there and what is not. Our senses are also very important because they're like our other eyes. They help us see not necessary with our eyes, but by any of our other senses either scent, touch, sight, taste, and or by listening to it. We might not see something, but by using any of our other senses we could figure out what it is. In this story, the author uses a variety of sounds and things that can be scented possibly because he wants he wants to give it a very detailed description in orderf or the reader to have a more clear thought of what is happening to the characters surroundings. All these hints for the reader to solve some of the mysteries surrounding in this case, the crew before he(not done)
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As humans, we rely on our senses the most. Though sight and touch are the senses most commonly referred to for description, Campbell uses a mixture of scent sound in “Who Goes There?” As an introduction to the story, the author describes the camp through scent, using descriptions such as “The place stank.” And “an odor alien among the smells of industry and life.” These quotes show the uncomfortable awkwardness of the place, while also foreshadowing that something strange and unwelcome is residing there. Sound is also used as a method of foreshadowing in chapter 4 when Connant is on watch of the creature. As he is working, the noises from the creaking counter continue to keep him awake and slightly distracted. Though, after some time, the sounds lure Connant to sleep. “The clunking of the counter was strangely less disturbing, the rustle of the coals in the stove no longer distracting.” Connant eventually falls asleep, not registering the sounds of the creature escaping. Campbell uses sound to show that because Connant ignored his senses, negative consequences will occur. “The creak of the floorboards sounded nearer.” Relying on your senses can be damaging because they can be easily manipulated. Through the crew’s paranoid and constant fear of the unknown, the men find that their senses cannot be fully trusted. For instance, their sight is manipulated by the creatures glowing, red eyes. Also, the creature uses imitations of the crew to replicate itself so that it can reproduce. The crew can no longer rely on their sight because there are imitations all around them. The appearance of this creature then has the men relying on sound and scent. Soon, even those senses are found to be unreliable. Throughout the entire story, Campbell has been very vague on things that most authors give a lot of description to. This lets our imagination wander to come up with the horrific events that could happen. The crew, also, does this and that is where their exaggerated paranoia sprouts from. By using scent and sound to describe things in “Who Goes There?”, Campbell is letting us imagine more of the obvious aspects of things. Also, it give more of a real-life approach to having a monster running around. Though people may not acknowledge it, scent is one of the most power senses, especially with memory. This camp, and this setting with be remembered by these men (or the ones who survive to leave it) for the rest of their lives, because of this horrible experience. The way Campbell uses scent and sound throughout the story makes it more imaginative and horrifying.
 * __Lauren, Rico and Anthony__**

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I agree with both of the groups in the fact that we relly on our senses a great deal. Also we some times take our senses for a kind of unthankfulness that the human race as a whole does until we lose it. further more I would agree on the fact that sent is the most important and widly used way of recognition and information gathering, for example if you hold your nose while eating some thing that smells bad you will taste it in a difrent way and maybe even like it. The reason for that is that the sense of smell is intertwined heavly in with our other senses. Finally sound is also a very beneficial factor in the way we "see" the world as a whole.
 * BIGFOOT 15**


 * Weirdhigg:** I agree with both of the groups for the same reason as bigfoot, we use our senses more than we realize. When you stop and think about it, then you actually understand how much we need them. What would happen if you couldn't hear, and somthing like a train was coming. You'd be in big trouble. The very important sense of smell, if you couldn't use it then there would be a problem, you can't smell the smoke from a fire, or the wiff of chemicals that would let you know to get out to stay alive. Both of these senses, along with others is the way we "see" the whole world, a world without them is a world of death. More so than now I mean.


 * King_Kong_Jordan:** Senses are important to the human life. Without senses we are just a big hunk of useless and non-perceptive skin and bones. We use sight and touch the most, so authors make them the most used senses to describe things in stories. I liked how Campbell used scent in the first chapter, starting out the whole story with "the place stank." I really liked Rico, Lauren, and Anthony's reply with the whole manipulation thing, because Connant would have kept the creature from escaping if he hadn't of relied on the sound of the counter to stay awake. Good...very good.