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Animals
There are a few sentences from Animal Dreams that will probably stay with us for the rest of our lives. "'Collie's a cock mechanic,' Loyd said" is one of them (16.113). Obviously, that's because this sentence expresses so neatly the ways that animals are tied to an idea of vocation throughout the novel. Animals can't help doing what they do—and dreaming about it—every day. That's what Hallie and Loyd want to be like, but Codi has to learn to work toward a life in which, like Jack the dog, she does what she's good at and knows how to do—and feels that it's enough.
Codi's identification with animals illustrates her fundamental difference from her plant-loving sister, Hallie.
In Animal Dreams, it seems as if the problem with humans is that they're constantly trying to deny the fact that they are animals like all others.
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