Chapter 7 Response

In this chapter, we learn more about Anise's upbringing and her reasons for being passionate about animal rights. Anise's mother, Rita, a failed musician who gave up her career to have Anise, takes a job as a cook on a Santa Cruz sheep farm owned by a kind elderly man named Bax in order to support herself and her daughter. On the farm, Anise has a traumatic experience when ravens attack the sheep while she attempts in vain to save them.