Waknuk Monologue

This image represents the scene where David and Sophie spend their late spring exploring Waknuk for places they can play openly, without Sophie’s foot being seen. One morning, they are shoeless at the stream when a boy named, Alan, encounters the two of them. David tosses Sophie her shoes and tries diverting Alan with a conversation, however he notices Sophie’s six-toed footprint on a rock. Alan furiously asks Sophie’s name, but David does not tell him. Rather, he tackles Alan to the ground for Sophie to have enough time to run away. Sophie hits Alan in the head with a stone, leaving him insensible, and David and Sophie run away to Sophie’s house.
I chose to draw this pivotal scene because David doesn’t mind getting into trouble for fighting
Alan in order to guard Sophie. He clearly deems her an irreplaceable person, and doesn’t believe that her six-toed feet make her “abnormal.” Alan, on the other hand, has internalized the definition of human. This shows us that something as fleeting as a glimpse of a footprint can ruin a life and how the people of Wanuk are afraid of even the slightest malformation.