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Animal Dreams Test (grr) Jahmal B. Golden
ReplyDelete1. Doc Homero is Codi’s father. He suffers from Alzheimer’s and sometimes gets confused when talking to people. He was a very protective father in that he set strict boundaries on what Codi could do so that she wouldn’t make life-altering mistakes. It sorta didn’t work, seeing how she got pregnant. Sometimes, the limitations make people want to rebel and go against the grain.
2. Hallie is a part of Codi’s family. They are sisters but they kind of have issues with each other. Codi thinks that Hallie is perfect and “godly” in comparison to her. It makes Codi feel worse and worse about herself while Hallie constantly objects to being perfect.
3. Loss and Loyd go well together in this book. Loyd got Codi pregnant at a very young age. Then, Codi miscarried and it ended their relationship. Loyd and Codi both suffered a lot of loss as a result of the unplanned pregnancy.
Part I
ReplyDeleteCodi and Hallie: Codi, the protagonist of Animal Dreams, and Hallie, her sister, have one of the most dynamic relationships throughout the whole book even though they never interact in the present tense of the novel except through letters. Somewhat uncharacteristically of the older child, Codi idolizes her sister due to her efforts in Nicaragua and her overall view on life. She feels that Codi is doing all of things she’s doing to better the world, but Hallie informs Codi that she is actually only doing them for herself. After Hallie is kidnapped and murdered in Nicaragua, Codi feels a great sense of loss. Soon after she had returned to Grace Codi felt as though she could not survive without her sister, but it wasn’t until her sister’s actual death that she realized she was just as strong as the sister she admired.
Love and Loyd: Codi was particularly hesitant to open herself up to Loyd, the man who, when they were teenagers, impregnated her. She eventually lost the baby through a miscarriage and never totally recovered from the trauma she experienced. However, it was undeniable to her that she was attracted to Loyd in a way that she never was with her long-term boyfriend, Carlo. Even after visiting his family, she could not totally commit to marrying Loyd. It wasn’t until after she was trying to leave Grace for good and the flight she was on was having engine troubles did Codi plea to her dead mother to let her live if she promised to never leave Grace again. It was then that she reunited with Loyd and fully gave her heart to him.
Commitment and Home: Codi left Grace and soon as she could and had no intentions of ever going back until her father began to succumb to his Alzheimer’s disease. Still, even with a boyfriend, her good friends, and her father living in Grace, she never intended on actually staying. She had an offer at the local high school to have her contract renewed, but she didn’t accept because she knew she didn’t want to stay. She realized, however, that the more she tried to escape from the Grace, the less her problems could be solved, and so she eventually returned to her hometown to stay.
Part 1
ReplyDelete1. Codi and Doc Homero-- Codi is Doc Homero’s daughter. She visits him frequently during her year back in Grace even though they have never been very close. Doc Homero is suffering from Alzheimer’s and is living alone. He knows more about Codi’s secrets than she thinks, and while he isn’t always sure how to be a father, he knows that he shouldn’t tell Codi he knows about the baby and the pregnancy at the beginning of the novel.
2. Love and Loyd-- Codi and Loyd have a very healthy relationship during Codi’s one year back in Grace. Loyd knows how to love Codi and treat her well. He knows what she needs and knows how the different people in his life need to be treated. He has changed since he was in high school and expresses his feelings about Codi and his family in a very healthy way.
3. Loss and Hallie-- Even though Hallie and Codi aren’t physically together, they are able to stay in touch through numerous letters. Codi has a hard time being without her sister and is able to deal with the loss only with the letters that she receives often. Codi has to find a way to say goodbye when she hears of her sister’s death and has to find a way to continue her life even though she has lost someone very important to her.
Part I
ReplyDeleteCodi struggles with her identity throughout Animal Dreams. She knows very little about where she came from and who she is. She has been a drifter, just shifting from one place to another with no real commitment, because she is afraid of loss. When the novel is concluded, she realizes that Grace is her home, and her identity is found through the others who make her life meaningful.
Doc Homero has a great deal of commitment throughout the novel. Perhaps he wasn’t the best father, and being the single father of two girls couldn’t have been easy. But he stuck it out through thick and thin. He didn’t know how to help Codi when she was pregnant, so he did what he could and gave her medicine. He stuck with the people of Grace and was reluctant to relinquish his position of doctor even after his sickness overwhelmed him.
Loss is associated with Hallie because she was killed near the end of the novel. She did what she believed in, and she died for what she believed in. This is a loss for her family, but in doing what she thought was right she inspired Codi to find herself and do what was right. She passed on her courage, which Codi had believed for so long she lacked.
Part 2
ReplyDeleteBarbara Kingsolver addressed social and political issues in her novel Animal Dreams. She deals with issues regarding the environment and the differences between Native American culture and new American culture in the novel. Codi also has to learn how help her father in the best way she can and be her own person even though she doesn’t feel accepted in the town of Grace.
Codi comes back to Grace for a year, and spends the year teaching Biology class. They soon discover that the water in the river is very polluted and that it is dangerous for it to run through the town, but it would also be dangerous for it to be damned and rerouted. The people of Grace then have to come up with a solution to the problem, while Codi’s students do research about the water to learn what the issues are. Many people in the town of Grace work to resolve the issue of the river and the pollution the factory has caused. Codi feels personally responsible for saving the town but she is not the only one doing her part. The Stitch and Bitch club sold piñatas to try to raise money for the cause. The issue of the pollution of the river turns into a bigger environmental discussion as people’s minds turn to the issue of the environment. Loyd and Codi have many discussions about the environment and talk about if they let the problem go to the government, it will only worsen the matter.
Loyd teaches Codi a lot about Native American culture, showing her different aspects of her life, and historical sites of the Native Americans that can be found near or in Grace. He introduces her to her family, and is given a chance to eat their food, which she really enjoys.
Another social issue is with Codi herself because she feels uncomfortable in the town of Grace. She feels like an outsider even though she grew up there. Her father always forced her to wear orthopedic shoes, which made her stand out, which as a high school student, can be very devastating. She was always the outsider in school and she has to learn to find her place and accept the past. She doesn’t want to stay in a place that has always mocked her, but in the end, she is able to stay in Grace, not staying away for very long. She ends up repeating her past in getting pregnant by Loyd again, but this time, it is not a bad thing. She has changed, and is no longer hiding.
Barbara Kingsolver addresses social and political issues in different ways throughout her novel. She has characters dealing with their issues as well as character relations and issues that affect the whole town. She addresses many different levels of conflict throughout the novel and ties them together in an interesting way.
Part II
ReplyDeleteCodi Noline goes to Grace to take care of her ailing father, not knowing who she is and what she wants to do with her life. She has no identity and no ties to anywhere. At the conclusion of the novel Animal Dreams, she has found herself through her father and her sister, and the people of the town of Grace. They have enabled her to stop running away from things that she might love, just to avoid loss.
Doc Homero, Codi’s father, said, “It’s most dangerous thing, hope. Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.” In this case, like father like daughter. Codi never wanted anyone to have a piece of her. She kept her true self locked away for so long that she no longer even knew who she truly was. She had no memory of her former life, of her childhood before she became pregnant and subsequently had a miscarriage. Something had changed at that point, when she realized she couldn’t rely on anyone else to take care of her. However, in order to form connections, she had to unlearn this particular fact and let people take care of her. In Grace, she makes friends, develops a romantic connection with her former lover Loyd, and helps the Stitch and Bitch save the river, which sustains the pecan orchards from the mining company. Unwittingly, she makes connections, and she likes it.
The change happens when she finds out about her sister Hallie being abducted and subsequently killed by the contras in Nicaragua. She doesn’t ever want to be that close to anyone again, to be susceptible to loss as being close with Hallie made her. So she leaves Grace and goes to follow her former boyfriend Carlos on his latest excursion. Because she can’t allow herself to hope, she must leave. However, she has a change of heart and goes back to Grace, seeing that it is better to love and be loved than move through life as a drifter, someone who has no connection, and will leave no meaningful mark on the earth. She is ultimately inspired by her sister, who lived so fully simply to live, and to be the best person that she could be. In a way, Codi embodied some of Hallie’s qualities after her death. In the end, a true sign of her acceptance of the past when she becomes pregnant again, after telling Loyd about their previous child. She no longer wants to hide, but to live and love.
Codi/Hallie:
ReplyDeleteCodi and Hallie represent a strong sisterly bond. Though they aren’t twins, their connection is one of two people who have shared the same womb. Sometimes, Codi can hardly tell herself apart from Hallie: she at times cannot remember whether it was Hallie who rescued the coyote pups, or herself. Codi, however, feels that she and Hallie are different people—she identifies the cause of this as the fact that Hallie grew up without ever having known her mother. After their mother’s death, Codi and Hallie turned to one another for comfort and support. This has kept their bond strong, and they continue to correspond through mail when Hallie travels to Nicaragua.
2. Doc Homero/ Loss:
There is much that Codi and Hallie’s father has lost: his wife, his mind, and, by the end of the novel, his youngest daughter. Afflicted with Alzheimer’s, he struggles to hold onto his life as he has known it. He continues to be a physician to the people of Grace, and continues his hobby of photography. However, it is clear some things are slipping away. Even as he tries to keep his mind straight, he has flashbacks and confuses the past with the present. His condition robs him further, of the ability to care for himself. Though he wishes to remain independent, the women of Grace take care of him.
3. Loyd/Commitment:
After a relationship of convenience with her lover, Carlo, Codi finds that Loyd represents commitment and solidarity. His ideas about loyalty (to his family, to the land) inspire a sense of commitment for Codi. Unlike Carlo, Codi’s relationship with Loyd is one of mutual love, respect, and loyalty.
Discuss Codi’s Personal Awakening in Animal Dreams:
Codi has lived most of her life believing she has no purpose. She is constantly comparing herself with her sister Hallie, whom she sees as driven, passionate, and utterly sure of herself. Codi, meanwhile, is not sure what she wants, or who she is, and goes to Grace because she feels she should, not because she feels driven by any special purpose. Once there, she feels as though she does not belong in her old home. However, over the course of her one-year stay, she finds things to make her stay. Affected by the beauty of the landscape, she becomes interested and involved in the fight to preserve the polluted river and the town of Grace itself. She begins to enjoy teaching biology at the local high school, and enjoy the feeling that people can learn from her. Her relationship with Loyd further awakens her from her dull, purposeless life with Carlo. Codi experiences a love that goes beyond her meaningless relationship with Carlo, and finds someone she can not only love, but learn from. When Loyd shows her the ancient lands of his ancestors, Codi is even more driven to help preserve the town. Finally, in making some degree of peace with her father, Codi learns the true origins of her family, completing part of the hole in her identity. All in all, Codi’s trip to Grace completes her: it gives her a purpose, a cause to fight for, and peace made with two people who have affected her life enormously: Loyd, father of her dead child, and her father, who kept their lineage a secret for so long.
Part I:
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Emelina’s friendship helps Codi greatly throughout the novel. Emelina is Codi’s support system and allows her to stay in the house out back. Emelina gives advice and takes a crucial role in helping Codi with her campaign, and ultimately helps Codi through a myriad of obstacles.
Loss-Hallie
The loss of Hallie is hard on not only Codi, but on Doc Homero, the citizens of Grace, and her friends in the Ministry of Agriculture. Hallie’s death forces Codi to reexamine her own life and to confront her family’s past. The loss of Hallie was painful, but her memory was well-preserved through the memorial service that was given for her in Grace.
Commitment-Loyd
At the beginning of the novel, Codi does not plan to commit to Loyd in any way, especially after their relationship in high school. However, Loyd has matured and grown into a trustworthy adult, a quality that Codi begins to recognize. Thus, Codi allows herself to commit to him because she is aware, through his dedication to her and his family, that he is a worthy companion.
Part II:
Codi’s Personal Awakening in Animal Dreams
The protagonist of Animal Dreams, Codi, undergoes a drastic transformation throughout the course of the novel. She grows from being insecure and untrusting into compassionate and independent. As Codi uncovers more of her past and thinks more seriously about her future, she changes greatly. The most significant cause of this transformation is the death of her sister Hallie, which forces her to face the realities of her own life. As a result, Codi’s change is witnessed by all those around her and she reaches a point of personal awakening and enlightenment.
The first stepping stone in Codi’s transformation is when Hallie sends Codi an angry letter calling her out on her misconceptions about not only Hallie’s life but her own. Hallie makes it known to Codi that she is not trying to save the world, only to do what she feels needs to be done. Hallie also mentions that Codi must discover the meaning of her own life by doing what satisfies her.
Then, after Hallie’s death, Codi faces the choices she’s made, her family’s history, and her own mortality. She realizes that she cannot take anything for granted because at any moment, she could die, just as the car accident victim did. Also, she discovers that her family is puro, a fact that Doc Homero had hidden from her throughout her entire life. Knowing this helps Codi to better understand her past and to accept her heritage, though Doc Homer may have been ashamed of their family lines. Also, while Hallie was missing, Codi’s teaching became extremely impassioned and she was finally able to connect with her students on a deeper level, allowing her contract with the district to be renewed and winning her an award for her teaching.
By the close of the novel, Codi’s life has changed dramatically. She has discovered who her family truly is, a fact that had been swept under the rug for many years. Knowing her past allows her to make her plans for the future, which include staying in Grace and committing to Loyd. Also, Codi is able to rid herself of some of her inhibitions, which is illustrated in her heartfelt teaching and campaigns with the Stitch and Bitch club. As the novel ends, Codi has ultimately discovered who she is and what she’s meant to do with her life.
Part II
ReplyDeleteCodi was on a permanent trip to “find” herself throughout Animal Dreams. She never felt like she fit in anywhere and she also felt like she paled in comparison to her sister, Hallie, who she described as being Godlike. Part of the reason she felt this way was due to her miscarriage at a young age, something from which she never really recovered. In an effort to make herself stand out among all of the pale-eyed Grace citizens, Codi chopped off her hair, Billy Idol style, and embraced a “punk” appearance that was not very common Grace. However, even this large physical difference didn’t satisfy Codi. She felt she needed to do something equivalent to Hallie’s efforts in Nicaragua in order to gain the identity she most desired, but Hallie reprimanded her sister by writing in a letter: “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.”
Even with her beloved sister’s permission to go after what it was she desired, Codi was still hesitant to open herself up to the people of Grace. She harbored a great deal of resentment to her father, particularly due to his insistence that she and her sister where orthopedic shoes to school, and she was traumatized from having gotten pregnant at fifteen. Even after starting a relationship with her baby daddy, Loyd, Codi could still not admit to him that she had carried his child in the past. She was also apprehensive to let Loyd completely into her life, even though she obviously had strong feelings for him.
Father Cardenal told Codi, “You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.” She associated this with her sister more than herself, but she came to realize that she could make a difference to herself and that that was just as powerful as Hallie trying to help others. However, it isn’t until Hallie is killed that Codi truly sees her potential as a person. She was devastated by her sister’s death, but was inspired by her sister’s passion and willingness to die if what she died doing made her happy. In the end of the novel, she can finally discuss her baby with her father and tell Loyd the truth about what happened. She also realizes that she doesn’t have to be as perfect as she always wanted to be and that she could be content as a medical school dropout living in her hometown with her high school boyfriend.
Essay Portion Jahmal
ReplyDeleteThroughout the book, Codi goes through a lot of changes. She slowly grows into herself after a series of unfortunate and amazing events occur in her life. She experiences things that shape her soul and changes the way she views people and life.
One major event that occurred in her adolescence was when she became pregnant. She was very distraught by the experience, not knowing what to do. Like most teens she was scared and confused. Then she miscarried and her life changed again. She started to feel guilty for her mistake and the outcome. She didn’t really understand how to handle the stress of her loss. This experience impacted the way she lived her life. She couldn’t even deliver a woman’s child when she had too because of the trauma she underwent. It’s just a powerful example of how our pasts impact our futures, negatively and otherwise. Coming to terms with this was a sort of awakening for Codi, as it would be for anyone that had to suffer like her. At the end of the book, she gets pregnant again and this is almost like closure for her. This is the true awakening.
Also, her relationship with her sister added to her awakening. She couldn’t really like her sister because she thought that she was perfect in every way. She compared her to god in a letter and Hallie sent her one back. In this letter, was a part of Codi’s awakening and closure with her sister. In the letter, Hallie told Codi that she was nothing like god. She was really angry that Codi thought about her like that. She went on about how her actions were for herself and weren’t to make Codi seem any less great. She wanted her sister to know that she wasn’t perfect, and she hated that Codi though of her like that. Perhaps the guilt from prior mistakes made her feel less than her sister. At that point, she let go of those thoughts of her sister. This was another part of her personal growth and awakening.
James Botsford 2-8-10
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PART I
Codi-Hallie
Loss-Doc Homero
Family-Home
Codi and Hallie are connected in the sense that they are both sisters. They share a close relationship with each other and write back and forth throughout the story. These letters share a great significance in identifying the different approaches Codi and Hallie have in their own individual lives and how they relate to each other.
The concept of loss and Doc Homero are connected in the sense that Doc has Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout the story he becomes lost in his own thoughts and perceptions. To add onto the detail, his main problem is distinguishing past from present. A clear example of which is how both Codi and Hallie, his daughters, are grown up, but he still views them as his own children and treats them that way.
Both the concepts of family and home are connected in that Codi grew up in her home in Tucson with her family. At only three years old, her mother died and Codi still carries this memory on with her. At the same time, grew up with her sister, Hallie, and friends such as Loyd, Emmelina, etc.
PART II
In Animal Dreams, Loyd Peregrina quotes, “If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” This quote is a vital part of the story’s theme in that it follows into the many experiences Codi has in both her past and the present parts of the story.
Shana Harris
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Doc Homer and Family
Codi and Hallie
Friendship and Love
Doc Homer was strong for his family, even though he had to struggle with his disease Alzheimer’s. He was very strict and cautious of his family. He wanted only but the best for them. He was a single father try to raise two daughters at the best of his ability. As the disease stated to get worse he started to see flashbacks of his teo daughters Codi and Hallie when they were younger.
Codi and Hallie are sisters and they are very close with each other. They are always there for one another when someone needs something. They both share each other’s thoughts and expressions and tell each other how they feel by writing each other because Hallie had to start her new life in Nicaragua. When they write each other, it strengths their relationship.
Throughout the book it shows friendship and love. There are many relationships that are built in the book. The love that each character has with each other grows into something much bigger than it was. Friendship is also gained throughout the book.
Part 2
Codi had to go through a lot as she grew up as a child. She has to experience many things a child shouldn’t have when they are young at three years old. In the future when she grew up, she had come to really realize that her mother had died and she was no longer here with her. It had broken her down, and hurt her so much as she got older. Codi had to be strong because of her miscarriage. She was traumatized because she was a young teen mother that was pregnant, and ended up loosing her baby.
Codi, Home
ReplyDeleteFor as long as Codi can remember, she has never really felt like she was home in Grace. She and her sister, Hallie were always set apart from the rest of the town, their height, and their eye color. They just never seemed to fit in, well in Codi’s eyes they never seemed to fit in. For Codi, home wasn’t necessarily being with people who loved you; she needed to be comfortable with herself before she felt at home.
Emmelina. Friendship
Emmelina was a very good friend to Codi; she welcomed Codi into her family and let her stay in a section of her home. Emmelina and Codi attended High School together and kept in touch afterwards. Emmelina has five sons and is married.
Love, Doc Homero
Doc Homero loved Codi; his parenting was not the fairest at times. Everything he did, the orthopedic shoes, the strategy games, all of it were out of love. As a single father, he struggled and at times his judgment was off, but there was no doubt that he loved his daughters.
Part 2
Codi’s Personal Awakening
In the beginning of the book, Codi talked about returning to Grace as if she was a stranger. She was unaware of her heritage to the town. As far as she knew her family were the outsiders and the rest of the town was against her. By the end of the book, she found out she was actually related to Dona Elena and was very much apart of the town. She even helped save Grace and became pregnant with Loyd and her’s second child.
Jack Scardino
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Part I
Codi-Identity
Codi explores her own identity throughout the story, learning of her family’s heritage (relationship to the Gracela sisters) and revisiting her past. She tries to identify herself between her mother and her miscarried child; she also struggles to find the relationship with her father and Loyd as she travels about the southwest.
Commitment-Loyd
Earlier in the story, Loyd’s commitment and trust are questionable, as we learn that he once got Codi pregnant as a teenager. Later, however, as he and Codi grow close again, his patience and commitment to her is more apparent, and he seems very respectable. He has a commitment to his culture and to his morals, which, if not anything else, have developed since Codi’s teenage relationship with him.
Loss-Doc Homero
As much as Codi can relate to loss (miscarriage environmental protection), as Doc Homero grows older, his memory begins to degrade. He becomes unable to communicate and keep track as a result of Alzheimer’s; he and those around him feel his loss of memory. There is also a sense of lost identity (these themes are common for many characters)- Doc Homero does not publicly connect himself to his true lineage. Some of his loss, therefore, is from isolation.
Part II
Codi’s Personal Awakening
Codi finds herself in many places in Animal Dreams. She seems to run from where she began at the beginning of her story, but eventually settles down. Codi recognizes the events that seem to keep her down in her past, such as her teenage pregnancy and self-doubt in schooling. She leaves to help with cultivating the land, and finds passion in it. Codi is soon “awoken” to her family’s past and relationships, revisiting her relationship with Loyd herself.
Despite this much, Codi and Loyd feel that they must move on, and Codi decides to return home, leaving Loyd again. When travel troubles stop her, however, Codi returns to him, and in the end, she is awoken to that passion, finding herself, standing next to Loyd, pregnant again. She identifies herself amidst the political, social, and personal issues that surround her and her community, no longer wishing to hide from them.
Kadisha Phillips
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Animal Dreams: Test
1. In the novel Doc Homer is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which means that he can no longer remember important things or facts. At one point in time he doesn’t even remember who his own daughter is. Nevertheless, family is an important theme when referring to Doc Homer because of the fact that in his daughters’ childhood (in the absence of his decease wife) it was difficult for him to raise his daughters by himself. Now it is difficult for him to identify with them, though they are the only people that he has.
2. Just like many people who are aspiring to make something of their selves, Codi left Grace, Arizona in order to do something with her life. Simply, she doesn’t get to achieve those dreams and eventually has to come back to Grace in order to take care of her father Doctor Homer. Codi’s home, Grace and the people residing there, are really what drives her geographical placement throughout the novel.
3. Hallie can be associated with commitment in this novel. Because of her keen interest in the stability of Nicaragua’s agricultural development. She shows her commitment to whatever it is that she has started when she returns to Nicaragua in the novel.
Part II:
In the novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver there is a strong focus on the theme of dreams, as probably noted by the title. Loyd Pergrina, one of the male characters in the story once said, “If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” Quite simply, this quote expands upon that theme, really defining what the novel is about.
In Animal Dreams, Codi suffers from a miscarriage that she has when she was fifteen years old. This really defines who Codi is within the novel. Her main dream was to escape the town of Grace, Arizona and to make a life for herself. In other words she wanted to live a sweet life, which would eventually give her sweet dreams (it would create even better things to look forward to). Unfortunately in the absence of her sister she has to return to Grace in order to take care of her father.
Although Codi never finished medical school, and had to return to Grace, she began to cope with what has happened. Essentially she created a new ‘sweet life’ to live and from that new life came more sweet dreams.
Hallie’s main dream or goal is to finish what she has started in Nicaragua with the agricultural state of the country. Basically agriculture is the root of every society’s development and success. The sweet life which she was living, helping the unfortunate native’s of Nicaragua created sweet dreams for her. With success or fulfillment comes even bigger hopes and expectation, as what happened with Codi.
In conclusion the words of Loyd Pergrina mostly circle around the two daughters of Doc Homer. In both of their lives, their dreams are what causes them to move forward and from that progression creates even sweeter dreams created from their sweet lives.
Amane Amireh 2/8/10
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Codi and Hallie- Two sisters who grew up in the same house and were raised the same way but turned out completely different. Codi is the not so happy sister the one is to her self and not so social. Hallie is the one who lives her life and she dies. This causes Codi to go back home to Arizona. Which leads me to my next connection between
Loss and Home- Codi went back home to kind of start over and find herself. After her sister died she realized how short life really was and how quick it could all be over. She went back to change her life around and to make herself more social and find love.
Love and Friendship- I think love and friendship are often confused for one another. Like when some one is happy with some one as a friend and then they aren’t sure if they are falling in love with that person. I think that’s why Codi never really got a spouse or partner and wasn’t so social.
“If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life”
A lot of times dreams relate to reality or come from reality. Something can happen to you while you are awake and then that thing is on your mind before you go to bed and so you dream about it. So if you want good dreams then live a good life.
Part 1
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Codi and Hallie are two sisters who are different with a strong connection. A connection so strong at times Codi can't remember if she did an event or her sister Hallie did. Most of the time Codi feels like she is different but they support eachother and will always be there for eachother even through mail.
Codi and Loss- with Hallie gone both sisters stay in touch through letters even though Codi feels that isn't enough. Codi had to sort of find herself
commitment and loyd- Codi seems to truthfully love Loyd because of the way he thinks with his love for land and his family and it's genuine and they share a mutual love for eachother.
Part 2
Codi is the type to runaway from problems instead of dealing with them but at one point she decides to deal with it. It almost seemed like the past kept her from moving forward but seems to take herself into another world when tending to the land. She goes through this stage with Loyd of wanting to be with him but leaving and it's like a ping pong effect. Codi tries to find herself with her surroundings and feel comfortable.