“Tobias then ran the knife blade down the hog’s stomach, dumping the entrails onto the ground. He said, “There’s my collards, right in his belly. He won’t eat nothing of ours no more.” ”
There is a humanity versus fauna dispute: the hogs are emblematic of the wildlife which destroys his crops. He slays the hogs to absolutely eliminate their destructiveness. The wildlife are disadvantaged because they lack the capacity to defend themselves; comparatively, Tobias is furnished with a gun.
“We killed a calf for food. It had no marking on it, and we thought it to be wild. We were seen by a man on foot, and now riders are coming for us. We have been running since noon yesterday. If they find us with you it might cause you trouble, so we will leave now."
Considering that Tiger and his colleagues are Native Indians, their admission alludes to the challenges they endured after the inauguration of the domestic animals. The domestication coverts their prime source of food into private animals. Obviously, the riders who are pursuing them are Non-natives who endanger the Indians by disrupting their lifestyles. Tiger and his colleagues begging food from Mr. Tobias affirms that their survival is imperiled and without the food they may not endure.
