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Animal Dreams
The Discovery of Life Through Death
In Barbara Kingsolver's novel Animal Dreams, the protagonist, Codi Noline, is unable to become self aware until the death of her sister, Hallie. Throughout the novel Codi's dependency on her sister the apparent cause. When Hallie ventures to Nicaragua to show the farmers how to replen ....
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.... in this aspect.This is the beginning of Codi's development of insecurities. In addition, Doc Homero's aloofness with the town people develops Codi's own feelings of inacceptance. To explain, Doc Homero has personal feelings of being an outsider in Grace and he displaces these feelings onto his daughters. This is exemplified in the way Hallie describes Doc Homero's self-sufficiency, "Being like no one else, being alone, was the central ethic of his life. Mine too, to some extent, not by choice but by default"(p 69). This depicts how he displaced his feelings onto Codi. Consequently, C ....
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