Animal Dreams By Barbara Kingsolver: An Analysis

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Some questions don’t have a definitive answer. In Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Codi is a high school biology teacher who pushes for a reform of laws that has the potential to positively affect Grace. With the intention of finding an answer for “why people make the political choices they do”, the book represents two sisters, Codi and Hallie, attempting to make the world a better place, however meaningful each action is. While both sisters had very contrasting views, they worked for what they thought was right. As we have seen, Codi tried to make a difference in helping reduce the pollution of Grace’s river by outlawing Black Mountain Mining Company’s practices of dumping waste. By learning this from a class field experiment, she found success with the Stitch and Bitch Club by making decorated piñatas attached with a memorandum stating Grace’s issues. They planned to “come back in ten days with five hundred peacock piñatas” (Kingsolver 195). The attention of the media was a great success compared to trying to use government channels to contact the leaders of their community. This eventually spiraled into filing papers making Grace a historic place, protecting the surroundings including the water supply. The Black Mountain Mining Company complied, and stopped dumping …show more content…
She left her hometown of Tucson, Arizona to help the farmers of Nicaragua farm more efficiently. According to Codi, Hallie went “south, with her pickup truck and her crop-disease books and her heart dead set on a new world” (Kingsolver 7). Her political views on third-world countries motivated her to help whoever is in need. Though witnessing the obliteration of Nicaragua’s environment, Hallie made a difference to the residents with her intellect. Her sacrifices and efforts would not be in vain. Despite her incredible feats, readers foreshadow her death from the beginning to the point where she was captured and killed by the

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