Please help me out with Y the last man!!!!

[medicryan]

can anyone please explain the symbolism in book 2 cycles when sonia dies and she says "i saw this documentary once on tv? it was about lions. they said that lions..." an then she dies, WHAT WAS SHE TALKING ABOUT? but ok seriously i need to know i've been racking my brain.

[DonC]

Sometimes a line about lions is just a line about lions.

[medicryan]

big help there buddy

[BurningStarIV]

It's entirely possible that it doesn't really mean anything. BKV has put a lot of things in these books that don't really mean anything, but get people talking and interpreting.

I like to joke with people that it was foreshadowing Pride of Baghdad.

[vazel]

Sometimes a line about lions is just a line about lions.haha you should read the imdb forums sometime. A lot of those people are whackos in how they want to see symbolism and double meanings in everything. Not to say that some movies don't have deep meaning but c'mon how do you take an orange and interpret it as an apple in actuality.

[stealthwise]

Well, there doesn't seem to be enough detail to "properly" interpret what that quotation means, but you could take that in any number of directions.

When I first read it, I assumed she was referring to the fact that a pride of lions often has one alpha male who's responsible for controlling and mating with the females. That could be a surface symbol for Yorick and his emerging sexual role in the book itself, which kind of culminates in Safeword.

But yeah, it's likely not even as deep as that.

[dademan]

Well, there doesn't seem to be enough detail to "properly" interpret what that quotation means, but you could take that in any number of directions.

When I first read it, I assumed she was referring to the fact that a pride of lions often has one alpha male who's responsible for controlling and mating with the females. That could be a surface symbol for Yorick and his emerging sexual role in the book itself, which kind of culminates in Safeword.

But yeah, it's likely not even as deep as that.

I've been reading through Y, and you make sense, Steath.

I didn't think much of the line when I first read it, but seeing it on here, well, makes me think.

Don't lions sometimes kill others for a higher position of power, so to speak? What if Sonia was trying to hint that Hero will become a bigger part of the book, or <SPOILER> She kills Victoria</Spoiler>, that group of amazons come into a higher position of power, now that the alpha is gone?

But like I said, I haven't finished the series yet.

[medicryan]

i appreciate everyones input, beacuse all i was looking for was someone that knew a lot about lions that would reveal something about lion behavior maby i had no idea about.