Examples Of Animal Imagery In Chapter 6

Timothy Findley's The Wars describes the history of Robert Ross, a Second Lieutenant in the Canadian Army, during World War 1. The story of Robert Ross is a candid recollection of a young man coming of age in the midst of horror and confusion associated with the "war to end all wars". Presented in the form of an archivist trying to piece together the past from pictures and letters, the narrative account is full of rich imagery and deep meaning. The abundant animal imagery in the novel is used to parallel and reveal the character of Robert Ross, foreshadow the situations he finds himself in, and symbolize hope amidst war.

At the beginning Connor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan all drink nectar to see if they spawn their spirit animal. After they drink the nectar they spawn in their own spirit animal. Connor gets a Wolf named Briggan, Abeke gets a leopard named Uraza, Meilin gets a panda named Jhi, and Rollan gets a hawk named Essix. After Connor spawned his spirit animal Tarik, a member of the greencloaks took them to greenhaven, the greencloaks base. Once you spawn in a spirit animal you are considered a green cloak. Once you are a green cloak you have to fight against evil. They all practice trying to train their spirit animals, and trying to control them better. After they become a green cloak Zerif (the bad guy) tries to make them a

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Animal Farm is almost a direct parallel to Russia during the time of World War I through World War II. The characters all have real life counterparts that are easily seen. The events are also all real and conveyed in the novel in an easily understood way. The novel creates a new way to look at the events that transpired during this time period and allows people to really understand what happened. In Animal Farm, George Orwell employs many symbols to convey the parallelism between the novel and World War I and World War II in Russia.

The abundant animal imagery in Timothy Findley's book The Wars is used to develop characterization and theme. The protagonist, Robert Ross, has a deep connection with animals that reflects his personality and the situations that he faces. This link between Robert and the animals shows the reader that human nature is not much different than animal nature.

      Two rats and a cat are used as symbols in Richard Wright's Native Son.  The rats, one found in an alley and the other in Bigger's apartment, symbolize Bigger.  Mrs. Dalton's white cat represents white society, which often takes the form of a singular character.  "Parallels are drawn between these animals and the characters they represent at key moments during the novel" (Kinnamon 118).  These parallels help the reader identify with Bigger and understand why he acts the way he does.  The animal imagery in Native Son explains some of Bigger's behavior and generates sympathy for Bigger and fear of whites.

Animal imagery is used to give the reader a better understanding of the message the author is trying to convey and to produce more vivid descriptions. During a round Mailer explain Griffiths attack “Griffith was like a cat ready to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat.” Mailer is describing an image in your mind that Griffith is intense and wants to win his fight against Paret. This also creates an imagine in readers head of Griffith looking so furious and hyped up, like his veins were popping out and he was growling like a bear. “Griffith making a pent-up whimpering sound all the while he attacked.” This is like an animal, such as a lion, which is furious and about to attack their prey. “…and then he leaped on Griffith to pull him away.” “His trainer leaped into the ring, his manager, his cut man, there were four people holding Griffith, but he was off on an orgy…” The word leaped creates an imagine of an animal prancing in joy or hunger, and this is what comes to mind as readers read this part of the

Throughout the whole novel, the beast progressively grew, later symbolizing the inner savagery of humans without discipline. In the infancy of the novel, the boys started to recognize a strange beast like creature that had shaken and alarmed them. One of the boys declared to the others- “But if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it. We’re going to hunt pigs to get meat for everybody, and

Sigmund Freud once argued that "our species has a volcanic potential to erupt in aggression . . . [and] that we harbour not only positive survival instincts but also a self-destructive 'death instinct', which we usually displace towards others in aggression" (Myers 666). Timothy Findley, born in 1930 in Toronto, Canada, explores our human predilection towards violence in his third novel, The Wars. It is human brutality that initiates the horrors of World War I, the war that takes place in this narrative. Findley dedicated this novel to the memory of his uncle, Thomas Irving Findley, who 'died at home of injuries inflicted in the First World War" (Cude 75) and may have propelled him to feel

In the memoir ,Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author uses animal imagery to characterize the Nazis and the Jews. During his experiences in the Holocaust, Elie meets many different people with a variety of personalities. He is also sent to many camps where he comes across relatives, cruel authority figures, and ruthless Jews. Elie uses animal imagery to illustrate the behavior and actions of the Nazis and Jews, especially in Buna, which is the camp that Elie spent most of his time in, meaning many events took place.

Many times throughout one of Ken Kesey’s most famous novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book uses animals as symbols to represent the story’s plot. The animals usually relate to individual characters and their current struggles within the story. Animal imagery provides us with great insight to the themes that Kesey is trying to have us explore, and is a very good tool that the reader can use to help better understand and relate to the characters.

Everyday symbols can be found almost anywhere. In the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, symbols are ubiquitous. Three of the major symbols in Animal Farm are the windmill, Animalism, and the pig named Napoleon. A line from the text reads, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell #). This proves the allegory of the story, which is that the whole book represents communism in the Russian Revolution. Orwell carefully embodied small symbols that added to the effect of the biggest one. How he intricately paints the picture is how an artist paints a portrait, including all the smallest details, in the case of Animal Farm it would be down to the smallest symbols.

To survive a tragedy such as the Holocaust, one must leave all morals behind and release the animal within them. In novels Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, both authors use literary devices to exemplify animalistic attributes found within the story. Elie Wiesel uses animal imagery to describe the characters in the novel, Night as opposed to Spiegelman, who uses animal metaphor to represent characters in the graphic novel, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. Both novels have their unique ways of symbolizing animals, however, Night is much more effective than its counterpart, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. In Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes animal imagery to convey the theme

The novel The Lives of Animals revolves around a novelist named Elizabeth Costello. She is an animal rights activist and it so consumes her that she begins to be disgusted with the human race and the way that they treat animals. She hates meat eaters and is only focused on animal rights in her old age. Her son works at a university and while admires her work, is a bit embarrassed by it as well. Especially when Costello is going to do a lecture on animal rights at the university he works at. Her son’s friends at the school disagree with her lecture as most of it emphasized the fact that human reason is not a value of life and is stupid. Following the lecture, characters approach Costello with questions regarding animal rights surrounding philosophical as well as religious aspects.

Through the life of Balram and his journey from rags to riches in The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga attempts to portray, in an exaggerated form, the daily life and corruption of India. One of the most prominent literary devices that Adiga incorporates into the novel is animal imagery. The title of the novel, certain characters, and the societal hierarchy as a whole are among the many aspects of the novel that are related to animals. Through this imagery, Adiga highlights the eat or be eaten, jungle lifestyle that encompasses India.