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An Encounter with Wolves 课文结构分析(text structure analysis)

This reading passage mainly tells a story about the author's sudden encounter in the forest with a mother wolf that had been caught by a trap and how he tried to win her confidence and set her free.
It can be divided into three parts:
    The first part is composed of 4 paragraphs, from Paragraph 1 to Paragraph 4. It relates how the
author met by chance with a wolf caught by a hunter's trap while he was prospecting for gold.
    And it also tells us how, in order to save the wolf from the trap, the author tried to find the
mother wolf's babies and then brought them to her.
    The second part is from Paragraph 5 to Paragraph 7. In this part the author explains how he tried to win the mother wolf's confidence by finding her food and making friends with her babies. Having finally won the wolf's confidence, the author succeeded in releasing her from the trap.
    The third part consists of Paragraph 8 and Paragraph 9. It tells us how the author followed the mother wolf to her clan. There he spent one night peacefully and harmoniously with the wolf clan, which seems completely against nature.