Paul Bunyan Research Paper

There are many tales of superhuman acts or human beings. The tales of these people on acts can be sometimes positive or negative. There is a mythical hero and lumberjack named Paul Bunyan. One drag of Paul’s axe created the Grand Canyon. He had a blue ox named Babe, Babe was the size of 42 axe handles. Babe was as playful as a tornado and he created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. Paul Bunyan was a national legend and symbolized many positive things. This caused him to be told in many stories.
Paul Bunyan was a gigantic lumberjack at lumber camps across the Northwest. “He was a lumberman in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Northwest” (Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature). This means that Paul was moving around and was a lumberjack at different places. Also it could mean that he was being told throughout those parts of the U.S by oral folktale. “Paul had an ox, Babe the Blue Ox, that was 2 times the size of the outdoors and as playful as a hurricane” (Ratigan). It means that his ox was incredibly huge and really playful. Babe might also be really dangerous,
“Paul was a symbol of might and working hard” (Schlosser). Paul was a representation of might since he was created the Grand Canyon. He was also a symbol of working hard because he worked at lumber camps and probably lumbered a lot of trees. “He personifies the American Genius for why the making of jobs is important” (Ratigan). He personifies it since Paul worked a job and did what he did really good. Also Paul showed that jobs were important and why doing it was needed. He did this because he lumbered and showed it was fun. “He was a national symbol or trademark for bigness, strength, ingenuity, and exaggeration. Bunyan was a symbol of strength and bigness cause he was huge and strong. He was also a symbol of ingenuity because he was actually based off a person and had many adventures. Paul symbolized many things like why working hard is