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Narrative Structure
The narrator in Animal’s People is a man that goes by the nickname Animal. He is given this nickname because he walks unlike a human. The cause of his appearance is due to the incidents of the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. In the novel, Animal is narrating his life as he sees it on all fours.

The novel is told through Animal’s tape recordings. The Kakadu Jarnalis insists Animal to tell his story. The tapes are recorded in Hindu by Animal and then translated into English by the journalist. Like any other foreign journalist, Animal’s thinks that his story will be entangled with everyone else’s in Khaufpur; the stories of all survivors will be meshed together to form one tragic tale. To ensure this won’t happen, Animal agrees to tell his story if only it will be told exactly how it is presented through his tapes.

In Animal’s second tape, he dwells on who the audience is. He talks directly to the audience in first person. In a letter to Animal, Jarnalis states “Animal, you must imagine that you are talking to just one person. Slowly that person will come to seem real to you. Imagine them to be a friend. You must trust them and open your heart to them, that person will not judge you badly whatever you say.” Animal’s then talks to the reader and says “You are reading my words, you are that person. I’ve no name for you so I will call you Eyes.” The whole novel is indicative on Animal’s life. He narrates directly to the reader, telling his story one tape after another.