One of these internal conflicts is Animal's attraction to women, because he cannot deny his vehemently human feelings towards human women. Seen as an inferior being by many people, he sees “the warnings in the faces of the older women who caught me looking at [Nisha]. The mating of animals with human females is unnatural, but I have no choice but to be unnatural” (78). His need to be with a human woman reveals his humanity to him, no matter how much he doesn't want it. The animal is stuck between love and desire for Nisha, but if he remained an animal he would never be able to act on his thoughts. This inner conflict within him brings out his humanity because of how the thought of him and Nisha together gives him hope, a human emotion. His philosophy about his own humanity is also influenced by his perceptions of other events and ideas. While talking to Ma Franci, she states that “Being trapped in a human body… is hell, if you happen to be an angel” and Animal sympathizes “with these angels. Being trapped in an animal body is hell if you dream of being human” (210). At this moment in the novel, Animal is accepting that his soul is human. He may be in the body of an “animal,” but he recognizes that he desires a human body. This desire makes him intrinsically human, because dreaming is a human characteristic. The animal truly discovers that it is not a human being while hallucinating and discovers that it cannot perform basic animal functions or instincts. He's starving, but he won't kill a lizard to eat, so the lizard tells him, “a broken rib can mend... but you can never change your nature. You are human, if I were an animal you would have eaten me” (346). The situation between Animal and the lizard takes place in Animal's subconscious, due to hallucinations, but the fact