In Kingsolver's novel Pigs In Heaven, Kingsolver uses Francis the Pigs as a multi-level metaphor. In the sense that she tells three dramatic stories which are unresolved until she recites Francis the Pigs which in context is even more horrible than the last two stories because of the way Francis died. Francis is a runaway pig and he escapes from a slaughterhouse in Red Deer. He keeps in running away evading the butcher and even tracking professional. He eventually get shot from a tranquilizer but through payments of children across the nation. He continues to live until in a weird twisted events the tranquilizers that did shot him ends up being the reason how he dies. This story marks a precursor into predicting the fates of the characters
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Cash seems to juxtaposed with Alice. They are similar in the sense that Alice moves from Kentucky to arrive in the Cherokee nation while Cash does the same. There lives are pretty much parallel in the sense that they are both motivated by anxiety from their previous encounters with their partners and their children. Cash leaves because it wasn’t working out living within white society.Alice and Cash are motivated by anxiety from the family. Cash grieves for his daughter while Alice is motivated in trying to find a solution in making Turtle stay with Taylor. The author projects a notion that they had both lived in these towns but never feel like as if it was their home. Which is exactly replicated in the story of Francis the pigs. Francis obviously doesn’t feel at home or even considers the butcher’s shelter a home because eventually he will be eaten. So Francis runs into freedom like Cash and Alice to find a “home” they would fit in. “He is headed back home to where he never should have left” . (Kingsolver, pg 178). Which signifies that Cash now understands where his heart considers home. According to the novel pigs in heaven. Alice arrives at Cherokee nation to visit Sugar. Sugar and Alice have very contrasting views of what they see. Most of Sugar's observation is based on love and family and how family love is binding and there is a level of security. "Sugar looks at the people gathered in the single green place and understands the price of love." (Kingsolver, pg 195) While Alice views sees the Cherokee nation as material decay and
Cash seems to juxtaposed with Alice. They are similar in the sense that Alice moves from Kentucky to arrive in the Cherokee nation while Cash does the same. There lives are pretty much parallel in the sense that they are both motivated by anxiety from their previous encounters with their partners and their children. Cash leaves because it wasn’t working out living within white society.Alice and Cash are motivated by anxiety from the family. Cash grieves for his daughter while Alice is motivated in trying to find a solution in making Turtle stay with Taylor. The author projects a notion that they had both lived in these towns but never feel like as if it was their home. Which is exactly replicated in the story of Francis the pigs. Francis obviously doesn’t feel at home or even considers the butcher’s shelter a home because eventually he will be eaten. So Francis runs into freedom like Cash and Alice to find a “home” they would fit in. “He is headed back home to where he never should have left” . (Kingsolver, pg 178). Which signifies that Cash now understands where his heart considers home. According to the novel pigs in heaven. Alice arrives at Cherokee nation to visit Sugar. Sugar and Alice have very contrasting views of what they see. Most of Sugar's observation is based on love and family and how family love is binding and there is a level of security. "Sugar looks at the people gathered in the single green place and understands the price of love." (Kingsolver, pg 195) While Alice views sees the Cherokee nation as material decay and