Comparing & contrasting the characters Codi & Hallie Noline In the novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, the characters Codi and Hallie Noline reveal many diverse personality traits. Codi and Hallie are sisters who were born and raised in Grace Arizona by their aloof father Doc Homer. Although Codi and Hallie shared the same upbringing, when compared they have minimal similarities, while their differences seem abundant. Even though Codi and Hallie were sisters the similarities between the …showed first 75 words of 401 total…

…showed last 75 words of 401 total…important to Codi, and she feels that she can never obtain it, but Hallie can. Codi views herself as “a tragedy magnet but Hallie [as] the opposite”(p.35). Codi and Hallie have very little in common other the sharing the same last name. After comparing and contrasting these characters, we see how different they really are. Both Codi and Hallie “suffered in [their] lives [they] went through together, but somehow came out different doors”(p.89).