The suffering of humans and nonhumans are a critical aspect in the novel such as the continuous suffering Lurie and his daughter encounters on the far. With the usage of animals as similes, the characters begin to have a new outlook on how they should live in society after their sufferings. Lurie and his daughter experience hardship, especially after they suffer through the attack on the farm, and after discussion regarding the humiliation and shame they receive, they realize they are unable to live the way they lived before the attack. Their new outlook connects themselves to animals figuratively as “perhaps that is what [they] must learn to accept. To start at ground level. With nothing. Not with nothing but. With nothing. No cards, no weapons,
