This interesting comparison continues with other characters as well. In a look into Lyle’s mind, it is apparent again when he explains how to construct a log cabin, using the comparison himself, in a self identification of animalistic behavior in humans, “So you start by digging a hole, like a gopher or a prairie dog…” (pg.21). Furthermore, this pattern appears again in the description of young Lyle’s family in their sod house in the summer, stating, “One floppy-hatted head pops out of the burrow and, gopher like, looks all around” (pg.
Lyle thinks observantly like the coyote does, Galvin backing up this idea with the statement that, “ This human has somehow raised his consciousness up to coyote level” (pg. A relationship that stays consistent throughout the entire story. It begins at the start of the book, when Galvin introduces a relationship between Lyle and the Coyote. Do human instincts cross over with animal instincts, or do they stay segregated in their own categories? Ultimately, promoting the idea that humans are nature, too. Weaving the two organisms together, and evoking thought of human’s place in nature, and nature’s place in humans. At various points in the book, Galvin describes his characters with animalistic characteristics and qualities.
In The Meadow, James Galvin creates a poetic and linguistic pattern, amongst many other patterns of a similar purpose, with the comparison of humans and animals.
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