Question

he stood up then on two legs. i saw him, i had to see him. my own dear love, turned in the hateful one. i couldnt move, but as i crouched there in the passage staring out into the day i was trembling and shaking with a growl that burst out into a crazy awful howling. a grief howl and a terror howl. and the others heard it, even sleeping, and woke up. it stared and peered, that thing my husband had turned into, and shoved its face up to the entrance of our house. i was still bound by mortal fear, but behind me the children had waked up, and the baby was whimpering. the mother anger come into me then, and i snarled and crept forward. the man thing looked around. it had no gun, like the ones from the man places do. but it picked up a heavy fallen tree branch in its long white foot, and shoved the end of that down into our house, at me. i snapped the end of it in my teeth and started to force my way out, because i knew the man would kill our children if it could. but my sister was already coming. i saw her running at the man with her head low and her mane high and her eyes yellow as the winter sun. it turned on her and raised up that branch to hit her. but i come out of the doorway, mad with the mother anger, and the others all were coming answering my call, the whole pack gathering, there in that blind glare and heat of the sun at noon. the man looked round at us and yelled out loud, and brandished the branch it held. then it broke and ran, heading for the cleared fields and plowlands, down the mountainside. it ran, on two legs, leaping and weaving, and we followed it. i was last, because love still bound the anger and the fear in me. i was running when i saw them pull it down. my sisters teeth were in its throat. i got there and it was dead. the others were drawing back from the kill, because of the taste of the blood, and the smell. how does this event change the way the narrator feels about her husband? how does this new information shape what you think you know about the narrator? what causes the narrator to call for help? why would the husband grab the branch?

Explanation:

1. The event of the husband turning into a terrifying being makes the narrator's love turn to hate and fear.
2. The new information shows the narrator's protective mother - instinct and her struggle between love and fear for her husband.
3. The narrator calls for help when she realizes the threat the 'man - thing' (her husband) poses to her children.
4. The husband grabs the branch likely as a weapon to defend himself or attack the narrator and others.

Answer:

1. The narrator's love turns to hate and fear.
2. Shows her protective instinct and inner struggle.
3. The threat to her children.
4. As a weapon for defense or attack.