Animal Main Characters

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There’s a reason why many of the classics feature an animal as their main character. Whether the story is meant for children or adults, animal characters give authors freedom to be playful or satirical with their writing.

Books about animals offer a new way to challenge political beliefs and they frame our social orders in a new context. Not all of these stories have happy endings but they each tug at our heartstrings in their own way.

Watership Down may be the most famous story with an all animal cast. Set in the English Countryside, Watership Down is a classic story starring rabbits as the main characters. The home of the rabbits is in danger due to its proximity to humans.They must hurry to find a new home. It’s a story of survival, living in a very harsh reality, and having gratitude for life.

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The causal link between the humans and the destruction of the whole world of the rabbits makes us rethink how we treat others and may convince you to lead a more altruistic existence. Like the rabbits, we are all continually surviving towards a Utopian society and a promised land.

This is required reading for most teenagers but few seem to understand why. Animal Farm is both a metaphor for a failed communist state and a yarn about a group of farm animals that decide they are better off running the farm without humans.

The story shows the power of populism and the fragility of democracy. It inspires us to be constantly vigilant and active about our political beliefs and ideologies so we don’t end up like sheep.

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The most vintage book on this list, Anna Sewell’s classic inspired people to treat animals with more kindness and see them as beings with their own spirits. Black Beauty is the name of the horse narrating his life. It’s a touching story about human kindness, cruelty, and forgiveness.  

Probably the most powerful book on this list, Maus is a reminder that not all books with animals are cuddly stories. Maus is about cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s relationship with his holocaust survivor father. It is also simultaneously a retelling of his father’s life.

The graphic novel format makes the imagery pop within the pages. Maus  is a great achievement in historical writing and a work of art in its own right.

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Touted as a book for young readers to enjoy, Silverwing is the first in a series of books about a young bat named Shade. He is something of a runt and gets mocked by the other bats. Kenneth Oppel introduces us to an incredibly imaginative nocturnal world.

As the series unfolds there is an immense social hierarchy that we begin to understand. The parallels between the bat’s world and their history is eerily reflective of our own.

Thought of as the opposite to Jack London’s Call of the Wild , White Fang is a story about a wolf that undergoes a journey to domestication. Written by a man who lived in the Klondike himself, White Fang  is set in the Yukon during the gold rush.

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This is a great read for wild lovers of all ages and it’s a heartwarming story about survival, perseverance, and living an authentic life.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is undoubtedly a children’s story, but it piques our interests. Mr. Fox is a charming anti-hero for whom we desperately wish success. Try as he might, he is not able to shake off his desires and true nature of sly thievery. This is a great story to share with your family or revisit on your own.

When the mean farmers he’s been stealing from join forces to stop him, Mr. Fox has put his whole family in danger and has to outsmart the thuggish farmers to save their lives. It’s a story of the compromises and sacrifices we make for those we love and how our greatest weaknesses can sometimes give us strength.

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Sarah Anderson is Canadian blogger and freelance writer currently back home in Vancouver after living in Vietnam. She believes in being healthy, being kind to yourself and the planet, and traveling authentically. Mindful Urbanist is her personal blog where she writes book reviews, lifestyle articles, and travel logs.

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I’ve been making comics for a long time (going at least as far back as middle school, where I’d make photocopies of comics I drew and sell them to other students), and I’ve almost exclusively stuck to the realm of human characters. The first comic I created was about other kids, who were about the same age I was at the time. And the most recent books I’ve illustrated each star human teenagers (even if one of them was a boat half of the time). I’ve read books that starred animals when I was younger, but I’d never made one before.

But when I started brainstorming a graphic novel for an early reader audience, I naturally began by thinking up an animal as the protagonist. I never really analyzed what makes them so great as a narrative device, other than “animals are cute, and kids like cute.”

Character  Character A Person, Animal, Or Imaginary Creature That Takes Part In The Action Of A Story  Main Character The Most Important Character.

There’s a long tradition of animals in children’s books. Little Bear, George and Martha, Babar, Arthur, Olivia, Franklin the Turtle…the list goes on. Most of these stories could be told with human characters, as they’re often caught up in everyday human situations. By using anthropomorphized animals, the stories have a whimsical appeal that prevents them from seeming too ordinary or mundane. This whimsy is especially beneficial in tales that involve more heavy themes, like politics or war or death, such as in books like

. Having animal characters welcomes the reader into the stories and also keeps the reader at a distance when the human elements are too difficult or scary to handle.

A lot of unintended baggage comes with human characters. Whether or not the age, gender, or societal status of a person is integral to the story, these are important to the reader, even if just on a subconscious level. There are rules to being a human person. Every reader is a human person, and is pretty familiar with the rules human society imposes on them, and if you leave out details about your human protagonist, the reader is possibly going to draw from their own experiences to fill in those details. Or they’re going to question details if your version of a human character doesn’t conform with what they know it’s like to be a human character.

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Even in fantasy or science fiction settings, if you’re writing human characters, readers expect they will act like regular people. If those people have special abilities or powers, you have to create reasoning for it. With animal characters, you can just about make them as much like an animal or as much like a human as you want, and anything that contradicts what it’s like to be a person doesn’t immediately get questioned.

You can have a family of bears that live in a cave, and they sit in chairs and sleep in beds and use dishes, and the daddy bear wears a tie, but the children bears don’t go to school, and they don’t shop for groceries, instead going to the river and catching fish with their mouths like real bears, and this all seems perfectly logical. You can tell a very focused human story without all the other aspects of being human getting in the way. You can tell a story about an old animal, one that relates what it’s like to be an old person, and a young reader will connect with it more readily than they might if the story actually stars old people.

Or employment. A worker bee is told there are too many bees in the hive, and he has to leave to find a work at another. This tale of a guy being laid off from his job and sent on a metaphysical journey to find purpose in life might not normally be an engrossing tale for a child if told starring an actual middle-aged man. A reader is also not going to question real-world details like you would with a human protagonist. Would this man collect unemployment? Does he get severance? How long will his medical insurance last? No, no,

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