The Connection Between Edgar's And Almondine

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The power of language has sculpted Edgar's life and marked him as special since the day he was born. For Edgar, the power of language is almost ironic, since he is unable to speak. He cannot use the same language as most people and has to learn how to communicate in his own way. This skill is incredibly powerful for Edgar, because it gives him the ability to communicate with the his parents, the dogs, and the outside world in general. As a baby, Edgar develops a strong and lasting bond with his dog Almondine. Throughout Edgar's and Almondine's lives, they are capable of communicating with each other in unique ways that even his mother and father are not able to do. When Edgar is at the doctor's office as a child and is having a conversation …show more content…

Since the night his father's ghost came to speak with him and hint that he was murdered by Claude, Edgar is tormented with the idea. After that night, Edgar slowly slips into this ilusion of how is father died and away from reality. This in turn affects everyone around him. At first, it is Claude who is affected and experiences a little bit of the ilusion himself when he sees Edgar watching him from the tree. Unerved at the sight, Claude feels as if Edgar is "reading your mind, can hear these thoughts and this makes you wonder what else he has seen, what else he might know, or guess" (Wroblewski 250). This thought marks the beginning of Edgar's ilusions slowly drifting into reality, since it hints to Claude that Edgar may know the truth, despite all odds. However, Edgar is fully haunted by this ilusion of how his father died that it starts to manifest within his thoughts about reality. That following morning "what happened next was impossible, yet it happened anyway: an ordinary morning passed" (Wroblewski 253), Edgar is in disbelief. He is so abosrbed in his ilusion that he forgets that he is the only one who experienced it which is the reason for everything happening that day being normal. The more his familly attempts to pull him back into reality, the farther into his ilusion he goes. His mother states that "you have to pay attention to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative" (Wroblewski 257), yet despite her intentions, this only encourages Edgar's desire to unveil the truth. He is fueled by the fact that his mother cannot see what he knows to be the truth. He does not wish to stick to the reality his mother lives in when he can try to prove his ilusion true. This desire ultimately leads him to delve further into his ilusion and out of reality. He attempts to see if his ilusion was once reality by using the dogs and the needles to stir a reaction out of Claude. Edgar was

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