In “Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I,” the soldier is a young French soldier whom Kiki befriends and adopts as her stand-in owner. He’s fighting in the trenches in World War I. Kiki fears for the soldier’s survival, as he’s thin and doesn’t seem suited to surviving the war. When the young man befriends another soldier, Kiki starts to suspect that the two are secretly in love. As Kiki imagines her death, she looks up into her soldier’s face and imagines that he’s either Missy or Colette dressed as a man.
The Soldier Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by The Soldier or refer to The Soldier. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I: Soul of Cat
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“Don’t eat any of it,” I said.
The tomcat looked offended at my suggesting he would take the food. “I have my own adopted soldier. But you should eat what he’s offering even if you’re not hungry. You might be the only thing keeping him alive until he’s rotated out of the front line and can get some rest.”
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The Soldier Quotes in Only the Animals
The Only the Animals quotes below are all either spoken by The Soldier or refer to The Soldier. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I: Soul of Cat
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“Don’t eat any of it,” I said.
The tomcat looked offended at my suggesting he would take the food. “I have my own adopted soldier. But you should eat what he’s offering even if you’re not hungry. You might be the only thing keeping him alive until he’s rotated out of the front line and can get some rest.”
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