Metaphor

"Little Beast" (127)

Linda Compares John to a beast because instead of being created and hatched from a tube, he was born like an animal. For Linda being a mother was a capitol sin to terrible to even speak of in London. So, when John, trying to be normal according to the reservation's culture, tried to calm his fretful mother down with an endearing term to his society, Linda snapped. She probably had scolded John on this disgusting word before. So, in the mist of her vulnerable state, she lost control, revealing her true feelings that she might have held back in the past. Hearing her son call her mom made her feel so far from the one place that she could have gone back to if it weren't for the accident that kept her on the reservation among the beasts. She could never be accepted in to society after birthing a child like a like the beasts that now surrounded her.