Animal Dreams :: dreams

sensual Dreams Stop it I yelled. My heart was thumping. Youre killing that bird - Codi Noline, Animal Dreams Those argon the wrangle of Codi Noline, a brave heroine with her mind set on rescuing a pulchritudinous but defenseless peacock from horrible torture by a group of demented children on her first day back in her hometownspeople of Grace, Arizona. Much to Codis chagrin, the bird turns out to be just a piata, spilling candy and bright treasures rather than a gory mass of rail line and b star. The children arent a pack of hopelessly troubled youth engaging in animal mutilation for sport, only a normal group of kids participating in a party game very common to the Southwestern Mexico-influenced burnish scared and confused by a strangers outburst. Any matchless who has seen a piata baron wonder how a person without impaired vision could mistake one of those bright, artificial paper mache creations for a living animal, but sometimes an perverted state of mind can make the world be viewed by dint of a murkier haze than poor eyesight could ever produce. Codis misconception of the peacock misfortune is a rather humorous story, but it has a deeper underlying meaning. Things are not always as they seem, whether they are seen with the eyes, the mind, or the heart. This is a honor Codi learns a little more of every day she is home. Her own sacred and emotional journeys are reflected in part by her changing views of the towns darling birds, the peacocks. The towns women founders, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Gracela sisters from Spain, arrived to wed lonely gold miners and left the small town with a legacy of looks, legends, and unique wild birds. At first, the helplessness of the piata Codi believes is real reminds her of her own powerlessness, and the fact that it has no defenders seems like her own inadequacy of protection fromher various losses. (DeMarr, 1999) Codis return is not the joyous homecoming of the educatee voted most popular in high school, b ut the return of one who has always felt different and alienated. She sees herself as an outsider because of her looks, her fathers insistence that his girls were fail than everyone else, and her lack of childhood memories of Grace. Even before the incident with the piata, the peacocks pushed themselves to the bowel movement of Codis mind by being the first thing she heard musical composition walking through her quiet town.