Barbara Kingsolver writes her book "Animal Dreams" very uniquely which gives me many quotes that i like. My favorite, though, would have to be in chapter 6 when Codi says "But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know" (53). This is my favorite quotes because it has a lot of foreshadowing for the rest of the book. It also explains one of the major themes in this book, death. Codi loses her mother, a child, and starting to lose her father aswell.
There are many characters in this book but my favorite one is Codi. Even though she feels lost and confused, I think she's right to. She has lost her mother, a child and now her father, too. I think she is scared to get too attached to people and places because she doesn't want to lose them. Her journey through this book is making her stronger and I think by the end of the book she will be as independent as she has always wanted to be.
The most important scene in this book is in the beginning of the book when Homero talks about how Hallie and Codi are so close they are like one person. He doesn't know his girls very well but he thinks they are exactly the same. However, they couldn't be any different. Codi doesn't feel like anywhere she goes is somewhere she can stay, and Hallie feels like everywhere is home to her. Codi is always lost and confused and Hallie is living life exactly how she wants to. That is a major part in the book because it shows how different things are than what they appear to be.