I think Zinzi sold her brother to a gang somehow, and I don't think she thought he'd really be killed, but both of those ideas are only shakily supported by the text.
No one really seemed to know what created the animals, though of course lots of people were sure they really did know. Some of the people who had them were looking pretty sociopathic, so I don't think guilt is necessary. Might be sufficient, though. Hmm, another interpretation of Zinzi's guilt about her brother would be that the Sloth showed up due to trauma so she assumed she must be the cause of his death. I don't think anything contraindicates that idea; her parents didn't get animals, but not everyone gets PTSD from the same stimuli.
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I just read this too!
Date: 2011-04-14 06:11 am (UTC)No one really seemed to know what created the animals, though of course lots of people were sure they really did know. Some of the people who had them were looking pretty sociopathic, so I don't think guilt is necessary. Might be sufficient, though. Hmm, another interpretation of Zinzi's guilt about her brother would be that the Sloth showed up due to trauma so she assumed she must be the cause of his death. I don't think anything contraindicates that idea; her parents didn't get animals, but not everyone gets PTSD from the same stimuli.