The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Individual vs. Society Quotes

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Quote #10

After a while, I find myself forgetting all about Wilf and the—the other things I could think about and I'm just lying back on the cart, watching it all go by, individual creachers snuffling around, feeding, bumping each other now and again with their horns, and there's baby ones, too, and old bulls and taller ones and shorter ones and some with scars and some with scruffier fur." (22.79)

The Sea of Things that Todd runs into represents an ideal society where harmony between individuals is a thing that can happen. Notice that when he's describing them wandering around, he mentions them as "individual creachers." Sure, they're animals, not people, but it's symbolic and it reminds Todd that society among all different types is possible.