Annotating and Summarizing - Essay Example

No Hunting Here, Please No Hunting Here, Please is an essay by Denise D. Knight that first appeared on 5th of October 1998 in Newsweek, Vol.132 Issue 14, on p16.It is an essay that focuses on her life and that of her husband by the countryside. They built a dream house and made the environment conducive for wild animals to stay. They also put “NO HUNTING” signs all over the property so as to protect these animals from potential hunters. However to their disappointment, hunters trespassed inspite of the clear warning signs.

Knight in this essay exposes the ruthlessness that is exhibited by New York hunters who kill these animals with impunity and lack respect for people’s property. Knight laments, “Then they take to the woods, often with willful disregard for posted signs on private land. Although the state has thousands of acres of land open to hunters, many of them seek out the less crowded conditions found on private property”(Knight, 1998).This impunity cuts across the board from the aged to the young, from parents to children.

The police have also been complacent and the fines imposed are not punitive enough to deter the hunters to keep off from other people’s property. Knight basically wants us to focus on the disturbances as well as dangers caused by hunters who intrude on an individual’s private property, New York State’s lack of control over hunters where she lives, occurrences of hunters blatantly disregarding “no hunting” signs clearly posted on people’s property and most importantly the fact that trespassing is a serious sign of similar social illness which misleads some people to think that the law cannot touch them, since they are above it (Knight, 1998).

Works citedDenise, Knight. "No Hunting Here, Please." Newsweek 5 October 1998: 3.