O.R. Blog

For my last quarter one outside reading blog I finished the novel Crispin by Avi. In the last portion of this book there was a really important quote that can be related to the novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. When Bear killed the steward John Aycliffe he said, "Can't you see the new truth we've made? In the midst of death there's new life!"(Avi 261). The meaning of this quote is that when somebody dies, it causes something new life as well. In this case it is used because with the death of Aycliffe, it allows Crispin to be a new man now that he isn't a wolf's head. The way that I related this to Animal Dreams is how it focuses on the idea of rebirth. The only difference that I see in this book is that it isn't personal rebirth, such as finding self, it is how he is given a second chance.