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full title Animal Dreams
author Barbara Kingsolver
type of work Novel
genre Novel of the American Southwest; novel of social commentary and cultural critique.
language English (with some Spanish words interspersed throughout)
time and place written Written between 1988 and 1990, mostly in Tucson, Arizona.
date of first publication 1990
publisher HarperCollins
narrator Codi (Cosima) Noline and an anonymous third person limited narrator with the perspective of Doc Homer (Homero) Noline
climax The major emotional climaxes of the novel are Hallie's death and Codi's decision to return to Grace permanently. The major climax in the external events of the novel is the discovery of the Historic Place Registry, which will save Grace.
protagonist Codi
setting (time) The 1980s
setting (place) Grace, Arizona, with a few forays to the surrounding Indian reservations and to Tucson, Arizona.
point of view Switches back and forth between Codi's (first person) and Doc Homer's (third person) point of view, although the majority of the novel is told from Codi's point of view.
falling action Hallie leaves for Nicaragua, and Codi returns home to Grace to care for her ailing father; Codi learns that Grace is menaced by the pollution and the impending damming of the river.
tense Present, interspersed and often confused with past as memory is confused with reality.
tone Very sincere, almost naïvely so, although also self-aware, as in the idealization of Native American Cultures that Codi participates in but also comments on.
themes The importance of ecology; the value of fertility; family and community;
motifs Medicine and doctors; distance
symbols Peacocks; the afghan
foreshadowing Foreshadowing is employed throughout the novel, both in the traditional sense of suggesting events that will occur later on, most notably Hallie's death, and also by suggesting secrets from the past that will be revealed at a later time.
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