Compare and Contrast Animal Dreams Characters

Animal dreams is a book filled with interesting characters who are similar is some ways but totally different in others. For Example Codi and Emelina, they are best friends and love each other but somethings about theme are polar opposites. First of all Emilina is very social, she is very energetic and loves to talk to every one and Codi isn't social like Emilina, keeps things to herself and doesn't mind being alone. For example at Emilina's fiesta the book said Emilina had to keep giving Codi people to talk with "Emilina, my guardian angel, kept setting me up in conversations before running off..."(pg 59) Emilina knows everybody and can always get a conversation going. But for Codi the fiesta was a bit of a social struggle and she found herself on the out side of the party "i moved out of the way of the principal rush and stood near the gate to the side yard near my little house..."(pg. 63) she was uncomfortable with all of the people so she kept to her self unless she was set up to talk. Although they Emilina and Codi are different in that way they are also alike in other ways. They are both very caring people although in different ways they are both caring none the less. Emilina care for her children and husband almost constantly. It was made obvious by her reaction to leaving Grace for a few day s with out her husband or kids, "Emilina hadn't gone anywhere without a child in thirteen years. Out of habit she packed a roll of paper towels in her purse. As we drove out of Grace she gasped for air, wide-eyed, like a hooked fish. "I can't believe i'm doing this,"She kept saying."(pg 193) Her shock of not having to be doing things constantly shows how much she cares. Codi cares in other ways that are a bit less evident. For example in class when she created the birth control unit in her class "i was disappointed and unsurprised to lose Rita. I'd been watching her jeans get tight. The pregnancy drop out rate at Grace was way ahead of motor -vehicle accidents... On Tuesday I made my own announcement: we were doing an unscheduled unit on birth control." (146) this shows how she wants all of her students to be able to stay in school and not have to go through what she had to and i think that shows how deeply she cares. Codi and Emilina are so alike and different at the same time.