Summary Of Response To Zena Young's Questions On Axolotls

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Brian Woodard’s Response to Zena Young’s questions on Axolotls
1. Why did the narrator think that the axolotls were capable of escaping? Because I believe the narrator envisioned him self within a prison as well whether it was being an outcast or the pressures of society. Otherwise why would he identify with something that he said was farthest from human compared to the other fish? I believe he felt that the creature had more freedom than him because he was now the creature’s prisoner.
2. Why was the narrator obsessed with the axolotl’s eyes? Because they were so different than the other fish because the other fishes, eyes resembled something remarkably human. So he chose the most different and interesting outcast like I believed the narrator felt about him …show more content…

Explain which reality was true and which was a dream? I feel that neither was true because like he said at the end he was living a lie and mocking his dream. Its normal for people to be in shock and denial and these situations and wanted to die a glorious death as mentioned with the sick boy in our previous story.
2. What is meant by “war of the blossom”? That is the most difficult question given to me by any of the students. The Egyption book of the dead says that we don’t really live until we die. The spirit world is so vast and beyond our comprehension that we are all apart of the galaxy and life is kind of like Halloween or dress up time because our existence is so much deeper than that.
3. What was the bad smell he kept smelling? It was a marshy smell like a swamp that he regarded as the bogs from which no one ever returned. The only correlation I can think of between no one ever returning is Louisiana’s high murder rate and the swamps being a very dangerous and hostile place naturally with the forces of nature. And I do know that part of the Aztecs migration and empire was around a swampland. That probably has a lot to do with

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