LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Realistic talking animals are often found in fables, religious texts, indigenous texts, wilderness coming of age stories, naturalist fiction, animal autobiography, animal satire, and in works featuring pets and domesticated animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anthropomorphism is often used in stories and art. The story of the “Three Little Pigs” has a wolf and three pigs who talk and act like humans. Disney’s Mickey Mouse also talks and acts like a human. An anthropomorphized animal is called a “furry". The novel The Call of the Wild also uses anthropomorphism.

Detailed explanation-3: -These are stories of quests, battles, cultures, and journeys with animals as their protagonists. The animals have anthropomorphic (human-type) characteristics, relationships, dilemmas, and thoughts. Very few of these stories involve humans and in those that do, the animals remain the central characters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maf in The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan. Napoleon and Snowball in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Bagheera in The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq. The Cowardly Lion in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum. More items •15-Nov-2017