Bad Wolves!?

Why are wolves almost always perceived as the bad guys? In fairy tales there is the Big Bad Wolf and also the wolf that chased Little Red Riding Hood. In movies the wolves are most often put on the evil side. Even in many books by good Christian Fantasy authors, the wolves are often placed on the bad side. These are a few of the authors that show wolves in a bad light: C.S. Lewis, Andrew Pierson, and Chuck Black. Why, oh why, do they put the wolves on the evil side?

As somebody who really likes wolves, I find it sad that so many times the wolves are put on the bad side. One thing that I noticed as a possible reason they may have put wolves on the same side as evil, is that in Europe, a lot of the wolves attached people as their natural habitat was infringed on my man. But did you know that all of the wolves were wiped out of England by men!

Perhaps someday I will write a story and have the wolves all on the good side! I have already read one author that did put wolf-like creatures on the good side, John White. In his Tower of Geberah series, the Koach were wolf like creatures that fought on the side of good. And just to mention it, in Andrew Pierson's Wing Feather Saga, one of the main characters, Tink, was changed into a grey fang; the grey fangs are wolf like creatures, but they walk upright on their rear legs.

I think wolves are getting a bad rap. They show a lot of qualities that our families need to know. These qualities are: loyalty, honor, courage and they stick together in family units (the pack).

-The Wolf Boy