Sabrina's response to

This week's piece was "Zoanthropy" from Tin House. I read the piece, and learned what the story was about. It was about a man whose father captured and killed lions that got loose in the city. The man went to view his beloved "saint Francis" and met a man working there who claimed to be the "lover." A lion was spotted at the museum and disappeared. The first man, Mackenzie Bonner, swore the lion winked at him, which instigated an obsession in finding the lion. After reading this piece, I did some research of my own. I looked up what Zoanthropy actually was - it turns out that this is a disease in which a person believes that they are am animal, a lower animal at that.
I took a look at Bellini's "Saint Fracis" and had some trouble interpretting the painting. I looked up an analysis or an interpreation of the painting and got a lead on some symbolism. After discovering some symbolism within the painting, I went back to the story and found some examples of the same symbolism, but in different forms. With that, I think the author used the symobolism from the painting in his story about the lion to relate the two in unision.