Reading Like a Writer: The Ninemile Wolves

Question: What specific details stay in your mind? Why? How do these small details lead to larger ideas?

A detail that Rick Bass described was the brutality of wolves at the beginning of his writing, how he pictured the way of their killing to their prey such as deer, elks, and cows. For example, he said “that the dear or moose calf, or young dumb elk is still warm (steam rising from the belly as that part which contains the entrails is opened first), is now dead, or dying.” He also said “they eat everything, when they kill, even the snow that soaks up the blood,” and his more description in the second paragraph on page 761.
How these small details leaded to larger ideas are that they demonstrated that he is with the people who are “against” wolves, but after reading the subject we discovered that he is actually with the people who are “for” wolves and that confirmed when he said “not just ranchers and wolf-lovers are following them, but men and women in suits-politicians, and worse-and scientists, too, with all sorts of drugs and needles and electrical equipment” etc. Furthermore, by using this tool, Bass wanted to clarify how people can see that kind of violence by wolves are very dreadful, without looking at themselves first. Also, he wanted to point out that this is a lifecycle can happen between any organisms to save the balance on earth.