“Second Nature,” which is one of Alice Hoffman’s best novels, is the continuation to Stephen’s adult life. In this novel, Stephen is exposed to the ‘real world’. At the age of three and a half, he was the only survivor in an airplane crash in the wilds of northern Michigan. A family of wolves raised him entirely apart from people. Later in his adulthood, he was caught by trappers and sent to a …showed first 75 words of 1251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1251 total…a wide range of imagery and symbolism in her novel. She is very well known for using these tools throughout all of her novels. All her titles to the novels symbolize the main idea or the point of the novel. I liked how she combined her idea of what she believed ‘Second Nature’ to be with wolves. She used ‘Wolves’ to symbolize misunderstood creatures. Stephen was misunderstood by the society and the world around him.