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Quotes From The Last Chapter Of Little Dog

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In this passage from the last chapter of the book, Little Dog compared himself to all the animals that he has learned have a special meaning for human beings. He used metaphor to visualize how he transformed from one animal to another, to symbolize what he has learned from all the stories that he has been told and how it shaped his self-identification to be a member of this family. For example, the Buffalo running off the cliff symbolizes his regret seeing people die from drug addiction. The monkeys represent his identity as Vietnamese, how his people are being attacked in Southeast Asia. The story of human eating monkey brains represents how the story of their community is being erased. Little Dog lives on the stories that he has been told,

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