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Essay Archive - Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice
Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice
She is dead. She does not appear physically but haunts mentally. She is
Codi and Hallie's mother Alice, the late wife of Homero Noline. Throughout the
novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Alice impacted the characters, action,
and theme(s).
When Alice passed away she took part of Homer with her. What she left
was a misfit of time and circumstance; an emotionally distraught and distant man
who attempted to resemble a father but veered more towards the tin man. Homero
existed beyond his wife as only a page out of an instruction manual, the one
with the caution....
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