Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice
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She is dead. She does not appear physically but haunts mentally. She is
Codi and Hallie's mother Alice, the late wife of Homero Noline. Throughout the
novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Alice impacted the characters, action,
and theme(s).
When Alice passed away she took part of Homer w ....
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.... only recollection of his daughters'
estranged childhood in which he strained to create slippery and unmothered
women.
Homer's fear of becoming attached to anything which reminded him of
Alice resulted in an unorthodox childhood for Hallie and Codi. Homero was more
of a child mechanic than a father. Retaining only his technical aptitude after
Alice died all he could do was provide his kids with orthopedic shoes and the
correct medicine. When not fixing Codi or Hallie's present or future ....
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