The Season Of The Skulls: Chapter Analysis

In every story, there is a bigger picture or idea. Both the narrative We the Animals and the article The Season of the Skulls, tackles the classic universal theme that is the coming of age story. We the Animals tells the story of a young boy's journey into finding himself through the use of short anecdotes from his childhood. On the other hand, The Season of the Skulls follows one specific summer in which she travels with her father that ultimately changes her view on life.

One of the chapter in We the Animals titled The Night I Was Made, serves as the high point of the novel. This chapter is different in the fact that it is a set of chapters encompassed in one. The chapter is broken down into sections labeled as the different times in the day. One thing that I noticed in this is that the content of the subchapter matches the title in the idea of light and darkness encompassed with the idea of good and

Justin, the young boy in We the Animals, choices to go against his family and live a life that was considered “abnormal” or socially unacceptable based on his sexual orientation. Although this caused a separation in his family, he lives a better life. Kristin, the girl from The Season of the Skull, on the other hand choice to conform to societal norms and lives a life of doubt and regret. Justin and Kristin both lives what seemed to be happy lives for young children. The tone words expressed in both pieces include happiness, sadness and even regret. Another interesting thing to point out is the use of gender roles in each story. Justin, a boy, is supposed to be masculine and strong where girls like Kristen are usually feminine and weaker. In society, girls typically aren't supposed to be dirty or play with dead things like Kristin did. In comparing the two works, one can see the complete gender role reversal between Kristin and