He grew to love the kitten and to make a connection with it. This puts him on a journey to compassion and changing his life because it gave him a fulfillment that he was missing in his life. He started to realize that animals had feelings, and that they hurt when they were sick or injured. Eddie became a vegetarian because of all the suffering and cruelty that he saw happening to animals throughout his life. His experience of "screaming in a vacuum" and being "bewildered by fear" is when he got mugged and left to die. He felt the fear that anyone would feel or even an animal would feel and didn't want anyone or anything to feel that way. I believe that Eddie relates his mugging experience to what the animals experience because he doesn't want to watch it happen or be a bystander to it and have no one protect the …show more content…
They were all abused, neglected, starved, uneducated, and unable to get good homes. The names that are used to describe the victims and justify the denial of all rights and extreme cruelty are, they don't have a soul, they aren't human, they don't have feelings, and many more. The "profit motive" relates to the abuse and cruelty in the Magdalene’s and the Witness by trying to justify what they are doing by keeping the faith, crippling individuals and animals, the nuns and priests received money to keep the women in the laundries, and the animals were skinned regardless of how for their fur for