In Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, he provides the reader with a fictional account of the Bhopal Disaster through the eyes of a deformed teenager in a fictional town named Khaufpor. This teenager calls himself ‘Animal’ because his deformity bent his spine to the point where he must walk on all fours, making him feel inhuman. With his mother and father dead, he accepts the name as his own and denies his own humanity. Although Animal tries to separate himself from his humanity because of the pain it causes him, he is forced to accept his humanity through his friends’ guidance and the inner and external conflicts that he faces meaning that humanity is unavoidable. Animal’s intentional divide from humankind is due him avoiding the emotions like …show more content…
One of these inner conflicts is Animal’s attraction with women, because he cannot deny his vehemently human feelings toward human women. Seen as a lesser being by many people, he sees “the warnings in the faces of old women who caught me looking at [Nisha]. Animal mating with human female, it’s unnatural, but I’ve no choice but to be unnatural” (78). His urges to be with a human woman give away his humanity to himself, no matter how much he does not want it to. Animal is stuck between loving and lusting for Nisha, but if he stays an Animal he would never be able to act on his thoughts. This inner conflict within him brings out his humanity because of how the thought of him and Nisha being together gives him hope, a human emotion. His philosophy on his own humanity is also affected by his perceptions on other events and ideas. While talking to Ma Franci, she mentions that, “To be trapped in a human body… is hell, if you happen to be an angel” and Animal sympathizes “with these angels. To be trapped in an animal body is hell, if you dream of being human” (210). At this moment in the novel, Animal is accepting that his soul is human. He may be inside the body of an ‘animal’, but he acknowledges that he yearns for a human body. This yearning inherently makes him human, because dreaming is a human trait. Animal truly discovers that he is not a human while he is hallucinating and discovers that he cannot perform basic animal functions or instincts. He is starving, but will not kill a lizard to eat it so the lizard tells him, “a broken rib may mend… but your nature you can never change. You are human, if you were an animal you would have eaten me” (346). The situation between Animal and the lizard takes place in the subconscious of Animal, due to the hallucinations, but the fact
The animal lives comfortably in the cage, until one day, the animal finds the cage door open. Faced with the internal conflict of deciding whether or not to leave the safety of the cage, the animal must make the hard decision. Nevertheless, drawn to the light and the outside, the animal decides to venture out of the cage, and never comes back. As stated in the passage, "So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering." (para 8). This explains how the animal now lives outside the cage, with freedom. The theme is revealed through the animal being able to get out of the cage and have his freedom. The reader connects with the passage by being put in the shoes of the animal. Having the feeling of being caged up lets the reader connect with the passage and the
Imagine a teenage boy who is isolated on a faraway island, without food or water. The hot and sticky weather is intolerable, but the rampaging storms are worse. He quickly develops malaria and diarrhea, and on top of that, blood-sucking insects and menacing reptiles lurch beneath his feet. He has no idea what is coming, but he needs to survive. This is the story of a young boy who has to travel to the other side of the world to realize that everything can’t go his way.
There are plenty controversial issues about bully breeds and whether they are acceptable or safe dogs to own. In July a woman was mauled in her yard and killed by a dog in Montreal. Due to this unfortunate incident the mayor Denis Coderre created a bill called BSL (Breed-Specific Legislation) which was approved by the legislation. This bill states that determined by their breed or pitbull features “American Pitbull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, American Bulldogs or any dog with strains of these breeds” will be unadoptable; they must wear a muzzle in public as well as a leash that’s 4 feet long and in most cases they will be euthanized due to their breed. BSL should be reversed because the real problem is irresponsible dog owners, the irresponsible owners will just switch breeds and any dog has the potential to hurt someone.
Richard Van Camp’s “On the Wings of this Prayer” and Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag” both describe a future utterly inhospitable to the humans of today, where the focus lies on the main source which allowed these conditions to take place: mankind. These short stories focus on evolution, artificial or natural, and the effect it has on humanity. Both authors utilize similar aspects of literature in order to carry out similar messages which lend themselves to each other’s arguments. Through the use of dialogue guiding the reader’s thoughts and anecdotes of the past, the authors are able to portray their message that
Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a rare book in which its author freely admits his bias within the first few pages. “I won't claim to be an impartial biographer,” states Krakauer in the author’s note, and indeed he is not. Although it is not revealed in the author's note whether Krakauer's bias will be positive or negative, it can be easily inferred. Krakauer's explanation of his obsession with McCandless's story makes it evident that Into the Wild was written to persuade the reader to view him as the author does; as remarkably intelligent, driven, and spirited. This differs greatly from the opinion many people hold that McCandless was a simply a foolhardy kid in way over his head. Some even go as far as saying that his recklessness was due to an apparent death-wish. Krakauer uses a combination of ethos, logos and pathos throughout his rendition of McCandless’s story to dispute these negative outlooks while also giving readers new to this enigmatic adventure a proper introduction.
The creature seek acceptance from humans, but when he tries to sympathize with one they aren't able to look past his appearance and are incapable of seeing his qualities. When the creature tells Victor his tale we learn how Victor's irresponsibility affects the creature. The first human to reject the creature is Victor, his own creator. Victor first states that the creature horrifies him, and left the creature to fend for himself. The creature seems like a kid because he has to learn how to survive, talk, write, read etc. When the creature continues telling Victor his tale he describes how he saves a girl from drowning, and the man that is
After reading the articles,”A Change of Heart about Animals”, by author Jeremy Rifkin, “Hooked on a Myth”, by author Victoria Braithwaite, and “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “dignity” to NonHuman Organisms Halt research?”,by author Ed Yong, I both agree and refute some things that are represented in all three articles. In the articles by Rifkin and Yong, I believe that there should be more examples present. In my opinion they were just making assumptions rather than stating facts in order to backup their claims. For example in the article by Rifkin he states” They feel pain,suffer and experience stress, affection,excitement and even love--and these findings are changing how we view animals” (Rifkin 2). By him saying this statement shows that he only states this statement off of what he thinks rather than off of logic and research. On the other hand in the article by Braithwaite’s article, her use of scientific words,and logic, showed me that she knows a lot on that subject. For example she uses words such as,”If you look at thin sections of the trigeminal nerve, the main nerve for the face for all vertebrates, fish have
In the article Are we in Anthropodenial it talks about animals having human qualities. The author begins with a...
“Much as we might want to understand animals at a level deeper than pop culture, we can only understand them in terms of our own experiences, language and emotions, and interpreted within our social, historical and cultural contexts. The only way we have of understanding animals is to recognize that ‘when we gaze at animals we hold up a mirror to ourselves’ (Corbett, 176). Animal messages are brought to us by the pop culture industry, whose job it is to create, disseminate, and sell meaning. In most cases, they aren’t selling you a moose, but what a moose means to you for example – the characteristics and qualities that you and most people associate with the species. Based on common meanings presented to us from an early age, animals are the perfect shorthand communication symbol. We use animals as devices, metaphors and symbols for a great deal of our expressions and ideas” (Corbett, 179).
Cats are a small mammal that is regularly domesticated to be a house pet. They are an animal with a short snout and retractile claws. Cats are similar to myself in my physical characteristics, my social habits and in my literary-related behaviors. The type of cat I am most similar to is the short-haired sable Burmese.
Imagine yourself or even your own pet, in a cage, inside a laboratory and having to be experimented on with needles injecting all kinds of different chemicals into yours or their body. In the article, A Change Of Heart about Animals, Jeremy Rifkin says, “They feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love”(2). Animals are living breathing beings, they have brains like us and they have hearts like us, so why do we treat them so differently? In laboratories, animals may be treated with dignity due to the Animal Welfare Act, but they still experience pain and suffering from being experimented on. Animal experimentation and testing should be eliminated if it is being done for our wants but for our needs it is different. For instance, if the experiments and testing are for a mediation for human use, then that would be understandable. In this situation, it is for human wants, such as fragrance, hair products, and makeup. There different types of brands that provide these products that work just as well and were not experimented on animals.
“Into The Wild” by John Krakauer is a non-fiction biographical novel which is based on the life of a young man, Christopher McCandless. Many readers view Christopher’s journey as an escape from his family and his old life. The setting of a book often has a significant impact on the story itself. The various settings in the book contribute to the main characters’ actions and to the theme as a whole. This can be proven by examining the impact the setting has on the theme of young manhood, the theme of survival and the theme of independent happiness.
Organisms, no matter what shape or size, depend on each other for survival – that’s how an ecosystem works. Sometimes, species would have to come together to depend on each other for survival. Other organisms would take up their own responsibility in the family. Animals and plants alike depend on each other, no matter the problem. For example, the clownfish and the anemone depend on each other for survival. The anemone is poisonous, but the clownfish is immune to the poison because of the anemone get nutrients from the clown fish’s poop. Species, like a cat and a dog, may seem to have a rivalry with each other. However, in times of need, they might come together for a truce. A dog that just had puppies might foster a litter of new kittens because of the mother’s responsibilities, the ability to work with the kittens, and the bonds that come with it.
[Common ground]Some believe that all animals and humans should have equal consideration in all matters because animals have shown to be as intelligent as some human beings. [Destabilizing condition] While they do have much in common, like the necessity of food, water, and shelter, animals and humans have one distinct difference that should prevent us from erasing the diversity between the species. This essential difference makes it so that humans and animals cannot be compared, and that while they, in theory, should have the same consideration as humans, cannot. [Costs] Impartiality between the two would mean that animals and humans are treated equally in all aspects, which would be unbeneficial to both species. [Resolution] The essential
Interactions between organisms are called a biological interaction. Within these interactions, there are positive but also negative interactions that can be beneficial to some, harmful to the other and even neutral for the organism. The interaction between organisms can be break down to three big categories and amongst those categories, it can be break down to small subcategories.