Birds
In The Line Becomes a River, birds symbolize freedom and thus come to feel like a threat to Cantú, whose job as a field agent in the United States Border Patrol is to…
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Wolves
For Cantú, wolves represent violence as a shadow side of human nature that must be recognized and understood. He shares his first dream about wolves at the beginning of Part I—the section that charts…
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Teeth
In The Line Becomes a River, teeth represent the extreme repressed stress and inner turmoil that Cantú experiences as a United States Border Patrol agent. As he gets increasingly entrenched in the world of…
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