In “Pet” Akwaeke Emezi highlights the situation and develops the problem of monsters being in the shadow of Lucille in a slow manner of sequences and characters, explaining the nature of Lucille and the people in it. One way in which Emezi builds this is by introducing Lucille as a safe city. The angels serve justice, by sending away the monsters. The book says “There shouldn’t be any monsters left in Lucille.” (Emezi, 1). The first sentence sets the idea of Lucille being monster-free, the reason why “It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Many people thought it wasn’t enough, but the angels were only human, and it’s hard to …show more content…
He is viewed differently during the timeline of the book; in the beginning, he was described as a person of high respect, very caring, and loving. “Hibiscus was Redemption’s trainer, a tall man with muscles like jerky, tough and lean, faster than a snakestrike, and most of all one of the angels of Lucille, He was a rare example of someone who had been to the revolution but chose not to get involved in leadership when it was all over.” (Emezi, 57). Emezi contrasts that he was introduced as a highly respected angel who helped to make Lucille monster-free, but at the end, he was a monster that did horrible things to his own nephew when he said” ’ I just have these feelings,’ Hibiscus said, his words breaking with emotion. ‘I need help, my boy. I tried to fight them for so long . . . for so very long. But there were powerful, they took over me . . .’ He started weeping then, and Jam stared, disgust sliding around in her stomach.” (Emezin, 188). The perspective of Redemption’s uncle was changed greatly because she did not expect his uncle to be the monster since he was a major part of Lucille being monster-free and being an