Animals By Don Leopan Summary
“Everything is food”
The book “Animals” by Don Lepan is set in a time where the people have subsided into a dysfunctional and inhumane lifestyle. It is a world in which people have run out of livestock so they seek other options, one of these options being Mongrels. In this story Don LePan explores the ways that people construct categories into which they sort ideas, organisms, and objects; and then they get so accustomed to these categories that they see them as natural or innate.
“Animals” is a fictional tale about a society finding new ways to eat protein by eating human children who are born with certain disabilities after the world has run out of livestock. The people labelled the babies born with disabilities as “Mongrels”, these labels made it easier for them to indulge into cannibalism. Mongrels slowly but surely become recognized as a wholly different type of species as non-human. “You might recommend that the …show more content…
Another lesson that is constantly engraved into the brains of people is that humans are the superior ones of all other species. “A toddler has the potential to grow into something with all the skills, logic, grammar, all that. A toddler has the potential to be richly, fully human, to become a Shakespeare. Birds and animals are dumb, Naomi, you just can't get around it. I love the way you care about this, but you have to come to realize that human life is special... A human life is worth more than a non-human one (Lepan 84).” In the book when Naomi present Sam (the mongrel) to her mom she gives her a whole lecture about how humans are superior and how to treat mongrels as pets more than humans. This shows that Naomi being a kid is learning these differences of putting species into categories from such a young age which will be in her mind her entire life and eventually she will accept them as
The book “Animals” by Don Lepan is set in a time where the people have subsided into a dysfunctional and inhumane lifestyle. It is a world in which people have run out of livestock so they seek other options, one of these options being Mongrels. In this story Don LePan explores the ways that people construct categories into which they sort ideas, organisms, and objects; and then they get so accustomed to these categories that they see them as natural or innate.
“Animals” is a fictional tale about a society finding new ways to eat protein by eating human children who are born with certain disabilities after the world has run out of livestock. The people labelled the babies born with disabilities as “Mongrels”, these labels made it easier for them to indulge into cannibalism. Mongrels slowly but surely become recognized as a wholly different type of species as non-human. “You might recommend that the …show more content…
Another lesson that is constantly engraved into the brains of people is that humans are the superior ones of all other species. “A toddler has the potential to grow into something with all the skills, logic, grammar, all that. A toddler has the potential to be richly, fully human, to become a Shakespeare. Birds and animals are dumb, Naomi, you just can't get around it. I love the way you care about this, but you have to come to realize that human life is special... A human life is worth more than a non-human one (Lepan 84).” In the book when Naomi present Sam (the mongrel) to her mom she gives her a whole lecture about how humans are superior and how to treat mongrels as pets more than humans. This shows that Naomi being a kid is learning these differences of putting species into categories from such a young age which will be in her mind her entire life and eventually she will accept them as